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Clowns, elephants, and beautiful showgirls. One of the many popular acts of the Ringling Brothers Circus is the aerial act called Satin. The first black aerial act ever to perform with the greatest show on earth. Cousins Denise Aubrey and Pamela Hernandez explain how they got started.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=24.92,47.8"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e It's sort of like we stumbled on it. We never had aspirations growing up to be aerialists. As a matter of fact, it didn't even cross our minds until after we had joined the show as Showgirls. We were dancers on the show and that's when we started thinking about it after two years and decided to try and do it. We talked to the producers of the show and they said, we'll let you practice after hours if you make sure you don't get hurt and follow certain rules. And we practiced for six months and then we auditioned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=48.68,77.06"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e How would you define?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=78.23,79.33"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 3:\u003c/strong\u003e your act. Are you a tight wire specialist or trapeze artist or?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=79.97,84.11"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 4:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it's neither. We do a two-person cradle and perch act, where Pamela holds me and I do acrobatic tricks and she does strength tricks. And we turn various acrobatic tricks and spin around and hang by everything we can hang by on a big star. It's stationary. You","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=84.83,100.73"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e I imagine everything is not like you thought it would be when you got involved with performing. What are the special problems that you've run across?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=123.12,128.8"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e The only time I think we're really afraid at all is we feel anxiety is when we're really tired or one of us is really sick or something. The other one pulls the other one through. But on the good days when you're feeling really good, you know, your attitude is like, oh, you know, I know what I'm doing, it's no problem, you know. Other than that, we don't, there's no problem.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=130.039,148.32"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 3:\u003c/strong\u003e You work at such great heights, it's obviously a dangerous profession, have you ever been hurt?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=182.75,187.09"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Not falling, we've had pulled muscles, things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=189.52,192.28"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 4:\u003c/strong\u003e happens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=193.03,193.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 3:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are your idols?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=194.41,194.97"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 4:\u003c/strong\u003e In the circus, we idolized Dolly Jacobs. She's an ex-aerolist that used to be on the show. Cabrillo Brothers, they used to be on the show. High Wire Walkers. The Farfans, all kinds of aerialists we admired and would watch. In the entertainment world, we liked Diana Ross and people like that. We like watching people like Lena Horne entertain because it helps give us inspiration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=195.76,217.46"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 5:\u003c/strong\u003e and you share.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=218.22,218.64"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 4:\u003c/strong\u003e The same. The same.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=219.22,220.84"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 5:\u003c/strong\u003e You are first cousins and you grew up together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=221.03,222.87"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, not really. We didn't really start hanging out, as you call it, together until we were around 17 years old and we started dancing together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=223.41,229.65"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 6:\u003c/strong\u003e Mm-mm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=230.1,230.1"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e And that's when we start realizing that we both think a lot alike and we got close. And that was really important during an aerial act together that you're close because you have to trust that other person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=230.66,240.3"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 5:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you plan to expand your careers, I mean, taking other things outside of the area as that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=252.38,260.68"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, we're really crazy. We want to do so many different things. We'd love to go into commercials and commercials if possible, and model, or anything creative is what we really like to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=261.44,271.28"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Satin success goes beyond their outstanding performances. It extends to the hearts and minds of the thousands of children who admire them as a positive role model. For City Line, I'm Harold Anthony.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=276.9,293.31"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e Tony Brown's Journal is the longest running black public affairs program on television today. Mr. Brown, what would you say is the reason behind its tremendous success?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=325.62,334.74"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e I think one of the not too hidden facts is that Pepsi-Cola Company has underwritten or sponsored the program for the last 10 years. In addition to that, we decided long ago that the black community was a viable community, that it was not a minority nor a poor sector, but a consumer market, and we've approached it that way. We've marketed black history, we've marketed black ideas, and we've basically marketed the ability of the community to help itself. And I think that that goes to the heart of black people. our audience of course is about sixty percent white which I'm very happy for so it shows that that white america has changed i remember when we started we certainly didn't have a significant white audience so there has been movement on both sides","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=335.4,375.69"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e you have consistently turned up quality program as it relates to black america ten years is an extremely long time to do that television ever run into a shortage of ideas as to what to produce","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=376.46,387.36"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I think we all do. I think you get bursts of genius, and for the most part, you don't have much genius. But I think we've had our share of good runs and good ideas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=388.11,399.63"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e What would you say are the necessary ingredients for successful black programming?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=400.85,404.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e I think the very first thing you have to do is to decide to tell the truth. I don't think a lot of black people have decided to do that and I'm not criticizing anybody in the media who's black. I think some of us feel that it is our job to defend all black people and I don't think that's what it's about. I think it's about sitting down, finding out the facts and reporting the facts without feeling that you're obligated to attack white people or that you're obligated to defend black people. Black people don't need any distortion of the facts. Racism is, is, is an evil racism is wrong. All we have to do is to report the facts. We don't need to bend them. And I think when you report us in a straight way, then you will have something that people can relate to and that will be meaningful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=405.47,444.66"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e Is the appetite for information on black America being adequately met through the media?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=445.67,451.35"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it's not being adequately met through the media. And I think we have to be very candid about one thing. Television can't adequately meet it, because television is a mass medium. No matter what you put on television, you and I are now are black. We're discussing black issues. I am anyway. But I have to discuss them in this mass medium in a way that everybody watching can understand it. Now, if I were in a specialized sector, such as a small cable channel or in a movie, then I could aim my message directly at a segment. For example. I am moving into movies. I have taken our last February four-part Black History Month program, Thank God on the Black Church, and I now have it in the form of a movie that we distribute to Black community organizations. I don't have to be concerned in that instant in communicating to anyone but Black people. So the medium determines the way the message will be conveyed. Television is never going to become a Black medium, and those Blacks in television are don't have to understand that. This is a mass medium. And whenever you talk about a subject of importance to one small group, you've got to talk about it in its broadest way, or you're not going to get a rating and you know better than I, if you don't get a rating, you won't be on this medium very long.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=452.2,518.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e You have said the absence of a relationship to a cultural group is the reason behind underachievement in black America.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=519.75,526.67"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e Black Americans under achieve for one primary reason, and that is black Americans are not in touch with their heritage. We live in a culturally diverse, pluralistic society. Everyone here with the exception of the native American is an immigrant. Every group has that is in America has its antecedents somewhere else. Now Jews overachieve because Jews are proud people. They are proud people because they're proud of David and Abraham and Moses. Asiatics who come to America came in 1979, not speaking one word of English. not dominate our academic circles, and certainly dominate the economy, particularly in black communities. Anywhere you go, you find certain groups that overachieve because they're in touch with their reality. Here we are, African-Americans, 300 and some odd years later, debating even if we're Africans. How can we compete with people who know their English, people who know their Germans, or people who know their Japanese, when we're in the business of even debating what we are? And that's precisely our problem. Your heritage gives you a basis... a good feeling about yourself and this good feeling gives you the basis to succeed and compete with members of other groups","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=528.56,592.08"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e How would you assess the movement of blacks in the media today, the last decade or so?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=593.36,599.22"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e I think blacks in the media, and we're talking, I think about broadcasting, have to really branch out of television. Television was a good start for us because we learned a lot of skills that we didn't have. I think a number of us need to move into movies. Over 50% of the tickets to movie theaters in America are purchased by blacks between 12 and 24. The... The movies now that gross the most money, I'll give you two examples, M.I.A., Missing in Action, The Exterminator, they're number one and two in the gross box office receipts, not Cotton Club, that'll lose $47 million. These two movies are aimed at what they call the urban market. Now, urban market is the new synonym for black people. Black people support Hollywood. Now, I and you are people who know how to make movies. We spend all of our time criticizing white people who make movies, exploiting black people. We should spend our time producing movies for black people. So therefore, our criticism is productive, and also we are creating wealth in the black community. That's where we need to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=600.17,656.3"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e What about that group of black filmmakers that we have now, who have produced and are producing, but are having problems getting their product marketed, not getting their films in the theater houses, the theaters won't run them for whatever reason, and not getting that mass distribution. It's a problem that black filmmakers and producers are faced with here in America today, that they've been faced with a decade, two decades ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=656.97,677.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 8:\u003c/strong\u003e Being on welfare is a problem. And long as you have a welfare mentality, you'll stay on welfare, whether you get a check every two weeks or whether you're trying to get white people in Hollywood to distribute your movie. If anybody in America, black, believes that they can become a part of the Hollywood movie system, they are crazy. There is no such way. There's too much money in this industry for them to let black people in. Blacks are going to have to create alternative ways to get movies produced. I am distributing a movie. I have three movies, one on the NAACP, one on the Tuskegee Airmen and one on the black church. I will distribute them directly to my market. There are 30 million blacks, 20 million belong to a church in 60,000 congregations. Every church house is a potential movie house. I have the NAACP. There are 1,800 NAACP chapters. Now, I can market, produce, and market directly to these people, take it around in a projector, let these groups use it as a fundraiser, and we're in the movie business. If you don't think like that, you can't be in the movie business. And too many of us are trying. I know a black woman. who was an actress, a would-be actress in Hollywood. She's been sitting by the phone for 10 years, waiting for someone to call and give her a little $300 job. She hadn't gotten a job in 10 years, and she's afraid of speaking out, because she doesn't want to be, quote, blacklisted. I said to her, how could you be any worse off than you are? You don't get any jobs anyway. So I mean, it's the mentality. Too many of us who call ourselves successful middle class blacks are some of the most dependent, welfare-oriented black people in this country. And we have to think our way out of this dependency.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=677.93,764.86"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 7:\u003c/strong\u003e Tony Brown of Tony Brown's Journal. Mr. Brown, thank you very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=766.34,769.28"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 9:\u003c/strong\u003e Come on children, let's sing. Let's sing. Let's sing. Come on children, let's shout. Let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Come on children, let's shout. Come on children, let's shout.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=791.82,811.92"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Glenn, you are known all over the country and all over the world as a famous vocalist. I saw you in the show and your feet were just flying all over the place. How much training did it require to teach you the complicated stuff?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=812.33,826.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 10:\u003c/strong\u003e Well really I began to work with George Faison last summer when the project first started and originally Aretha was scheduled to do it and we went into rehearsal for about six, seven weeks. And then we took a break and now we're back. So it really wasn't a lot of extensive training, just about getting in there and just trying to do your best. and having George Faison to stand there with the whip and say, this is where it's going to be, and it's really beginning to come together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=827.78,861.18"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Not long ago you crossed over from gospel into more or less, I guess, rhythm and blues. Do you tend on shifting more to one side than the other?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=862.53,873.15"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 10:\u003c/strong\u003e Well I'm still writing gospel, I still intend to do some, as a matter of fact I'm going to do at least one gospel song on my next album. So that's always going to be there, that's my route, that's where I came from. And gospel is something that never gets old, you can always reach back and do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=874.709,898.33"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 11:\u003c/strong\u003e You stirred my soul, you lifted my spirit high. You made me do the things I would never try. So sing, oh, hell yeah, sing well. One of those songs that take us all the way. Thanks for watching! Back home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=902.81,931.85"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Tauron, you play the angel of God in the play. You have a very rich voice that takes us right there. Obviously you've had a lot of training for this particular part.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=935.67,948.19"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 12:\u003c/strong\u003e quite a bit of training.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=948.17,948.93"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Would you like to tell us about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536#t=949.79,950.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/144732/file/267536/transcript/77538/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 12:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean, I'm an opera singer by profession, as far as I'm concerned, and when I was growing up I never would have imagined that I'd be an opera singer. When I entered Fisk University in 1974, I didn't even know I had the ability to do that kind of dramatic singing. And when I started doing it and I found that I could do it, it was just, I mean I was obsessed by then. And it's been that way ever since. And opera is just so exciting. And now to sing Mahalia Singh and be the angel of God and have a part where I can be down-to-earth and warm and operatic is great. 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