WEBVTT 00:06.766 --> 00:09.133 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% (soft piano music) 00:37.066 --> 00:39.466 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music) 00:42.600 --> 00:45.866 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 00:45.866 --> 00:47.633 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - In a place not so far away 00:47.633 --> 00:50.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% at a time not so long ago, the people danced. 00:51.933 --> 00:55.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Though many miles from that which was sacred, they rejoiced, 00:55.833 --> 00:58.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because they knew their souls would come home. 00:59.166 --> 01:00.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It's time to come home. 01:02.066 --> 01:03.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (Eartha purring) 01:03.933 --> 01:05.833 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (audience applauds) 01:05.833 --> 01:07.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] It was Tom Wolf who said, 01:07.566 --> 01:09.766 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% "You can't go home again." 01:09.766 --> 01:12.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But legendary performer Eartha Kitt, 01:12.000 --> 01:14.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% recently disproved that adage 01:14.133 --> 01:17.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% with a triumphant return to her native South Carolina. 01:17.666 --> 01:19.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Ladies and Gentlemen, 01:20.466 --> 01:23.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the incomparable, Ms. Eartha Kitt. 01:23.366 --> 01:28.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% (audience applauds) (audience cheering) 01:39.500 --> 01:42.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - I do appreciate very much, this day. 01:47.866 --> 01:51.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I had no idea how I would feel coming home. 01:52.833 --> 01:57.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I left in tears, but it seems I have come home to love. 02:04.300 --> 02:07.200 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (audience applauds) 02:14.500 --> 02:16.066 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% - [Speaker] Oh yes. 02:18.266 --> 02:20.100 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - I want to thank all of you 02:20.100 --> 02:24.533 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% for the gifts that you have given me. 02:24.533 --> 02:25.800 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (Eartha sniffles) 02:25.800 --> 02:27.733 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% And I can now say, 02:29.200 --> 02:33.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that is I have been in over 108 countries of this world. 02:35.700 --> 02:40.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I can very honestly say, that today above all days, 02:42.333 --> 02:47.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% you have made me inextricably proud to say 02:48.300 --> 02:49.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I'm a South Carolinian. 02:49.800 --> 02:50.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% (audience applauds) (audience cheering) 02:50.933 --> 02:52.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] Although born in North, 02:52.366 --> 02:55.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Ms. Kitt left South Carolina some 60 odd years ago 02:55.466 --> 02:57.466 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% when she was just a child. 02:57.466 --> 03:00.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Impoverished, taunted by relatives, 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and separated from her mother, 03:02.000 --> 03:05.200 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% her memories of her home state are less than fond. 03:06.966 --> 03:09.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I'd like to know what door this key opens? 03:09.500 --> 03:10.500 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - Everything. Everything. 03:10.500 --> 03:13.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (all laughing) 03:13.600 --> 03:15.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Yes I do have mixed emotions, 03:16.766 --> 03:18.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% because I was always very afraid of coming 03:21.566 --> 03:23.000 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% back to the South because of the way 03:23.000 --> 03:24.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I was treated as a kid. 03:26.400 --> 03:29.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And as I say I left in tears more or less. 03:30.300 --> 03:33.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Also, as a kid I left very happily 03:33.566 --> 03:34.900 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% because I didn't want to be 03:36.733 --> 03:39.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% constantly in that position of which I was as a child. 03:39.800 --> 03:41.600 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% Being called a yellow gal. 03:41.600 --> 03:44.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Not being accepted by anybody. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Not having a knowledge of whom I was. 03:48.400 --> 03:51.066 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And I've gone through life wondering whom I am. 03:51.066 --> 03:55.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% It's tearful and it's laughable at the same time. 03:55.100 --> 03:56.333 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% But then that's been my whole life 03:56.333 --> 03:57.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've laughed and cried at the same time 03:57.866 --> 04:00.433 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% because I've always thought, since I don't know who I am 04:00.433 --> 04:02.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I might as well pretend I am somebody. 04:02.266 --> 04:03.766 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So I did and made somebody. 04:03.766 --> 04:06.933 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (all laughing) 04:06.933 --> 04:08.933 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - [Reporter] Are you pleased with your invention? 04:08.933 --> 04:10.933 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - Oh of course I am darling. 04:10.933 --> 04:13.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (Eartha Purring) 04:13.400 --> 04:15.933 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - [Narrator] But during the visit, Kitt also took the time 04:15.933 --> 04:18.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to learn something about her true identity. 04:18.833 --> 04:21.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% She returned to North, the town of her birth, 04:21.833 --> 04:24.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and the source of sad an unsettled memories. 04:43.066 --> 04:44.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Yup, I remember that a little. 04:54.666 --> 04:56.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - [Speaker] Yeah this used to be the school. 04:56.333 --> 04:58.000 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Used to be the school 04:58.000 --> 04:59.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% when she got out of her car 04:59.066 --> 05:00.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and she came out over this. 05:02.400 --> 05:05.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - [Speaker] Yeah. She remember the famous school. 05:05.733 --> 05:07.933 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (indistinct) 05:07.933 --> 05:09.400 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - Yeah this was a school. 05:12.200 --> 05:13.800 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% - [Speaker] This is all new. 05:13.800 --> 05:15.133 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% - Well it might have been, 05:15.133 --> 05:17.566 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (indistinct) 05:20.033 --> 05:22.100 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (engine rumbling) 05:22.100 --> 05:23.566 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% - This was a school? 05:23.566 --> 05:25.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - That's what she remembers this as being, a school. 05:25.700 --> 05:28.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - Did you go to school here? - What? One day. 05:28.166 --> 05:30.766 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (all laughing) 05:32.266 --> 05:34.500 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% - [Speaker] Ghosts. 05:34.500 --> 05:36.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Here's another erica. 05:36.500 --> 05:38.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - Is it really? - Its a reaper. 05:38.600 --> 05:40.800 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% - Oh its a reaper. 05:40.800 --> 05:44.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Its very emotional, because before I came, 05:45.466 --> 05:49.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I was very concerned about how I would feel once I got here 05:51.333 --> 05:52.600 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% because of the way I was treated when I was a child 05:52.600 --> 05:54.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in this area of my country. 05:55.966 --> 05:58.800 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% But from the emotional side 05:58.800 --> 06:03.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% remembering the hurts that penetrated my little heart 06:05.233 --> 06:08.766 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% when I was a kid and my inner self, very hurting, yes. 06:11.433 --> 06:12.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% But I think the coming 06:12.633 --> 06:14.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I think this is one of the main reasons 06:14.166 --> 06:18.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% why I also accepted this invitation. 06:18.766 --> 06:20.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And thanks to the Benedict College 06:20.333 --> 06:22.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that they have invited me to do this. 06:22.966 --> 06:27.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But I'm able now to eradicate, not forget. 06:31.166 --> 06:35.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But I think to a greater extent, forgive. 06:36.766 --> 06:40.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And now that I'm feeling the touches 06:40.233 --> 06:43.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and getting the touches of the people. 06:43.033 --> 06:44.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The black and the white, 06:46.366 --> 06:50.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% I'm beginning to feel very comfortable with myself, 06:51.466 --> 06:55.366 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% as well as my feeling and relations with other people. 06:55.366 --> 06:59.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Because when you are, well I can only say I, 06:59.033 --> 07:02.766 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% I feel that being a rejected person, 07:04.733 --> 07:07.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% you don't understand why you are being rejected. 07:07.433 --> 07:10.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% All you know is that you are a different color 07:10.100 --> 07:11.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and you are called a yellow gal. 07:13.033 --> 07:16.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So you are not wanted by anybody, particularly if you're 07:16.633 --> 07:19.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on top of all of that, illegitimate. 07:19.766 --> 07:21.466 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% You don't know who your father is. 07:22.533 --> 07:24.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And you have some doubts really 07:24.300 --> 07:26.233 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% as to whom your mother was 07:26.233 --> 07:29.433 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% 'cause there is no proof of a name 07:29.433 --> 07:31.966 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that I can identify with except the one the public 07:31.966 --> 07:34.033 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% has made me realize is mine. 07:35.200 --> 07:39.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And knowing something of my past 07:42.266 --> 07:45.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% gives me the feeling that I'm beginning to find myself. 07:46.833 --> 07:49.100 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% Knowing whom I am. 07:50.433 --> 07:52.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] The vehicle for Kitt's return, 07:52.300 --> 07:56.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% was a one night only performance of "Souls The Calah." 07:56.200 --> 07:58.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% A dance theater work written and directed 07:58.633 --> 08:00.166 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% by Walter Rutledge. 08:00.166 --> 08:03.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Artistic Director of the Benedict College Dance Company 08:03.700 --> 08:05.533 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% the Harold Odom Dance Theater. 08:06.900 --> 08:09.766 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% It is set on Wadmalaw Island and it's the folklore 08:09.766 --> 08:12.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and traditional rituals of the sea islanders. 08:13.166 --> 08:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (upbeat drum music) 08:24.333 --> 08:27.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Featured in the tile role of The Calah, 08:27.033 --> 08:29.966 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the most powerful of Mambo priestesses, 08:29.966 --> 08:32.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Kitt narrates this tale. 08:32.133 --> 08:34.533 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music) 08:35.666 --> 08:38.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And when the gates of paradise were closed 08:39.700 --> 08:44.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the man and the woman and those of the man and the woman 08:48.466 --> 08:52.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% became the first to walk the land. 08:54.033 --> 08:56.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 08:58.833 --> 09:01.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% To take dominion over the seas. 09:07.233 --> 09:08.466 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% To till the soil. 09:14.733 --> 09:16.266 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Build the cities. 09:21.033 --> 09:22.600 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% Study the heavens. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Write the laws. 09:35.933 --> 09:38.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Those of the man and the woman 09:40.833 --> 09:44.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% became the first scholars, doctors, astronomers, 09:50.233 --> 09:53.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% philosophers, warriors, kings and queens. 10:01.900 --> 10:04.900 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% (audience applauds) 10:06.466 --> 10:08.333 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% When I received the script I liked it very much 10:08.333 --> 10:11.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I liked the idea of exchanging cultures. 10:11.566 --> 10:13.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Because I think through the exchangement of cultures 10:13.733 --> 10:17.233 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% we understand each other and therefore we have an ability 10:17.233 --> 10:20.633 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to be able to get along better through communication. 10:20.633 --> 10:22.166 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% And since it is a college, 10:22.166 --> 10:26.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I think education is probably the most important thing 10:26.833 --> 10:31.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that we can give our children because like the saying says 10:31.000 --> 10:32.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "don't waste the mind." 10:33.466 --> 10:37.400 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% And I like, now that I'm here, 10:37.400 --> 10:41.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I like very much Benedict College, 10:41.500 --> 10:44.300 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% because it seem to stand for values 10:44.300 --> 10:48.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% between the races and different cultures. 10:48.666 --> 10:51.300 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% What we call civilization, 10:52.733 --> 10:55.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% well the civil side of it is yet to be achieved. 10:55.333 --> 10:57.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (Eartha giggles) 10:57.366 --> 11:01.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And the lization about it, is exactly what it is, lies. 11:04.533 --> 11:07.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% We are not realizing what the word actually means. 11:09.100 --> 11:11.333 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Civil, whose civil? 11:12.300 --> 11:15.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% You're civil or am I civil? 11:15.233 --> 11:18.200 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% My culture or your culture? 11:18.200 --> 11:20.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% And if there is a difference in our culture, 11:20.733 --> 11:24.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% let's be civilized about it and not lie anymore 11:24.600 --> 11:28.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about yours being wrong and mine being right. 11:28.633 --> 11:33.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Let's share it, learn from it, educate each other from it, 11:33.166 --> 11:35.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% which is what I think this piece is doing. 11:35.800 --> 11:37.133 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 11:37.133 --> 11:41.533 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% (Eartha singing in foreign language) 12:09.366 --> 12:12.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The song says every time I walk into a church 12:12.566 --> 12:15.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I always see Angels that are painted white. 12:16.633 --> 12:18.666 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% And I'm a black child. 12:19.766 --> 12:23.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% If I am a good child and black, 12:23.133 --> 12:24.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% would I not too go to heaven? 12:26.200 --> 12:27.333 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Or are we not allowed. 12:29.933 --> 12:34.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So now you see why I sing "Angelitos Negros" in Spanish. 12:34.366 --> 12:37.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% It's never been translated into English as well 12:37.833 --> 12:39.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% as I would like it to have been. 12:39.933 --> 12:41.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% But the Spanish word says it exactly. 12:43.533 --> 12:47.966 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% (Eartha singing in foreign language) 12:53.633 --> 12:56.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Interviewer] Are you at peace? 12:58.000 --> 13:02.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - When I think that I'm at peace, I really don't know. 13:04.566 --> 13:09.466 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Because once in a while if you, that anger coming up. 13:10.900 --> 13:13.400 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% Not being allowed to have education, 13:13.400 --> 13:15.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% not being allowed to even keep my own name. 13:15.633 --> 13:17.300 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Even that was stolen from us. 13:19.766 --> 13:21.066 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Who was my tribe? 13:22.400 --> 13:24.833 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music) 13:30.133 --> 13:33.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - A lot of thing were influenced by their environment, 13:33.466 --> 13:36.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% which include rap and a lot of other things. 13:36.033 --> 13:38.633 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Country and western, folk and a lot of other stuff. 13:38.633 --> 13:41.800 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And they wanna do it all. They wanna make money. 13:42.966 --> 13:45.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So it's not, when you wanna make money quick, 13:45.366 --> 13:48.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% then you better back up off jazz, 13:48.200 --> 13:50.000 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% if you wanna make it fast. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% If you have patience and you think that 13:52.666 --> 13:57.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% you love it enough to make some sacrifices for it, 13:58.533 --> 14:00.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% then it'll come a different way. 14:00.900 --> 14:04.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Don't expect for jazz to be on the same level as pop music. 14:04.966 --> 14:07.233 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% Pop is in and out. 14:07.233 --> 14:11.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Jazz stays, it's been cheered on, survived 14:11.000 --> 14:15.066 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and made all kinds of money, regardless of a hit record. 14:15.066 --> 14:16.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Duke Ellington's music will be played 14:16.866 --> 14:19.433 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% forever and ever and ever and ever. 14:19.433 --> 14:23.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Billie Holiday, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. 14:23.266 --> 14:27.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So don't expect for it to be like pop music 14:27.600 --> 14:29.633 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5% 'cause it ain't pop music. 14:29.633 --> 14:31.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% It is jazz. 14:31.400 --> 14:33.100 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 14:33.100 --> 14:35.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] She's Betty Carter, a Jazz legend. 14:35.833 --> 14:38.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And she makes no apologies for it. 14:44.133 --> 14:46.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% In a career that spends a half century, 14:46.566 --> 14:47.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Betty Carter has wedded 14:47.833 --> 14:50.500 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the ups and downs of her chosen field. 14:50.500 --> 14:53.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Along the way not only has she established her own career 14:53.500 --> 14:55.833 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and proved her staying power, 14:55.833 --> 14:58.100 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% but she's also reached back, 14:58.100 --> 15:00.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% offering the hands of experience to assist 15:00.333 --> 15:03.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% young and inspiring jazz musicians. 15:03.366 --> 15:06.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% In her view that's just paying her dues. 15:07.266 --> 15:09.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - Well someone did hire me when I was, 15:09.166 --> 15:12.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% had just got out of high school and I was Lionel Hampton. 15:12.133 --> 15:15.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I went on the road with him for 2 and a half years. 15:15.300 --> 15:18.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And that's when I made my decision. 15:18.333 --> 15:19.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% That's who I really wanted to become, 15:19.833 --> 15:22.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% was a good jazz singer. 15:22.133 --> 15:25.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The same rules apply for most young people. 15:25.666 --> 15:29.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% It's just that today, the environment is different. 15:30.300 --> 15:33.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% There are not a lot of places for them to work. 15:33.166 --> 15:35.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% To get some training, on the job training. 15:35.300 --> 15:38.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% Because in jazz it is that, on the job training. 15:38.866 --> 15:40.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% You can go to school and get your education 15:40.566 --> 15:42.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and learn about your instrument 15:42.166 --> 15:43.733 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% or learn about how to play it. 15:43.733 --> 15:45.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% How to use your fingers and stuff like that, 15:45.666 --> 15:49.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but in order to become a creative artist, 15:50.700 --> 15:52.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to make your own print, 15:52.966 --> 15:56.066 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% or to find out how you wanna sound, 15:56.066 --> 15:59.600 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% you have to really do it, and get out there and do it. 15:59.600 --> 16:04.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And today, unfortunately there are not a lot of places 16:05.766 --> 16:09.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% for these young musicians to do that. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.766 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And I am just one of the people that can hire them 16:11.766 --> 16:13.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% long enough for them to help, 16:13.166 --> 16:15.766 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% make decisions about their lives. 16:15.766 --> 16:18.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - [Interviewer] Do you think of your voice then, 16:18.733 --> 16:20.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% when you're standing up there, 16:20.233 --> 16:23.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% you think of yourself as more one of the instruments? 16:23.866 --> 16:27.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - No, I think of myself as a singer. 16:28.100 --> 16:31.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But I know that because I am flexible, 16:31.700 --> 16:35.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I take some risk with the music. 16:35.066 --> 16:37.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% That's what musicians do, horn-players do. 16:37.866 --> 16:42.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% That most people think that my voice is like an instrument. 16:42.333 --> 16:46.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% But I don't think that way, I don't get on the stage 16:46.666 --> 16:49.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and think well I'm a saxophone tonight or whatever. 16:49.100 --> 16:52.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% No, I think of myself as a singer. 16:52.233 --> 16:53.266 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% But I just happen to, 16:53.266 --> 16:54.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% whose able to do a lot of things 16:54.933 --> 16:56.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that maybe horn-players can do. 16:57.866 --> 17:00.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But I'm a singer. I sing words. 17:00.033 --> 17:02.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I sing lyrics and stuff. So I'm a singer. 17:02.333 --> 17:03.600 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music) 17:03.600 --> 17:07.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Yup. You like a lot of you own music and you, 17:11.033 --> 17:15.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I guess interpret or rearrange a lot of the others 17:15.533 --> 17:18.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% so that it sounds as though it's new music. 17:18.533 --> 17:22.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Is that really the joy for you? 17:22.866 --> 17:26.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - Well you know that came as I evolved. 17:26.200 --> 17:28.533 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% If you go back and listen to my early records, 17:28.533 --> 17:30.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you'll find that I did not change the melody 17:30.766 --> 17:33.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that it was pretty much, I did it pretty much the same. 17:33.866 --> 17:37.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% But as I grew in the business and as I educated myself 17:37.333 --> 17:39.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and my years, I realized that I could do 17:39.800 --> 17:41.200 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% a whole lot of other things. 17:41.200 --> 17:44.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Not only that, I refused to change the keys, 17:44.733 --> 17:49.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that I sang them in years ago, same songs rather. 17:50.900 --> 17:53.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And because as you age your voice changes. 17:53.233 --> 17:56.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% And most singers maybe dropped their pitches down 17:56.733 --> 17:58.733 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5% a couple steps and stuff like that 17:58.733 --> 18:02.466 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to accommodate their voice because of the age process. 18:02.466 --> 18:06.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Well I refused to change my keys. My ego got in the way. 18:06.733 --> 18:08.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (Betty giggling) 18:08.366 --> 18:09.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Then I didn't want to get deeper 18:09.933 --> 18:11.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 'cause I'm already deep anyway. 18:11.566 --> 18:15.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% My throat is deeper and it's getting deeper as I age anyway. 18:15.333 --> 18:16.833 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So I just put myself through, 18:16.833 --> 18:19.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I challenged myself by dealing with the songs 18:19.500 --> 18:21.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% in the same key. 18:21.366 --> 18:25.033 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% So I would have to change the melody a little bit. 18:25.033 --> 18:26.433 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% But it also, 18:26.433 --> 18:30.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I changed the melody, it educated me. 18:33.566 --> 18:35.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Interviewer] When you look back over this 18:35.600 --> 18:38.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% very long and illustrious career, 18:38.033 --> 18:42.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% what do you see is the greatest period of growth for you? 18:44.133 --> 18:44.966 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5% - Now. 18:47.533 --> 18:50.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - [Narrator] Really? Would you expand on that? 18:50.400 --> 18:52.966 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5% - Yeah. - Why now? 18:52.966 --> 18:55.366 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% - 'Cause I know I'm more now. 18:58.366 --> 19:01.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And I like me better now than I did a long time ago. 19:02.433 --> 19:04.566 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% I'm confident now. 19:04.566 --> 19:06.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I'm secure in what I do now musically, 19:08.300 --> 19:10.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% so I'm gonna do, I mean, I'm in love with me now. 19:10.933 --> 19:13.366 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music) 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% ♪ You go to my head 19:26.966 --> 19:29.400 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% (soft music)