hello hello welcome to the comment about the show i'm so happy that you could join us today but we have a very very special guest she's returning but this time she's returning with just one person see before she came on with a band maker's mark but today she's featuring just herself and her a cop and this ladies and gentlemen on to that tell us where you're from steph born and raised in new york city new york city and new twenty i'm born and raised in brooklyn actually born in queens but raised in brooklyn that's new york city is what happened to your band maker's mark shot up to them all we're still active but we're kind of in active right now all of you are we cuz either one or two of them are always travelling oh i see  jerome here or what do you do now and for your gigs well because people have been requesting me yes i've been doing a bit more solo gigs i actually actually performed with another trio a month ago and jerome harris who i don't have and very long we actually met doing another gig for the new york public library and i'd never performed to the guitarist before and i thought  thought that i was going to become a chemist but this is like during the mid sixty's mid late sixty's in and with all the social tumble to that was go a lot of the time i started getting more and so yeah so i was there majoring in social psychology which which that field wasn't what i had imagined it would be through all throughout all of that time music was a hobby i was self taught on guitar that's what i wanted to ask you so all this time when you were a little boy gone stuyvesant going to harvard you were still playing music what we play was instrument i was playing guitar ok i played violin bad horrible eat in junior high i wore an instrument that i could sing along with and i bawled my parents for a guitar and they got me eleven christmas and you know some books and so i would be in my room you know trying to teach myself you know how to play chords and such and you know was in bands in my neighborhood you know learning from friends and things and and all throughout college i played in the old student groups and such and had worked at the school radio station where i got to learn to listen to ton of music as i spent probably too many hours there for my from i agree but learn jazz listen to rock to pop to classical music they were getting in a lot of records of various ethnic traditions and that as much as anything led to my deciding that i didn't since i didn't want to become an academic social scientist i applied to music schools and got into berklee college of music and to new england conservatory of music with the new and to do it music yeah oh good and so so they talk to you or your core than your theory and everything and these i want you to tell me about the nd phone together thing yesterday yesterday ladies and gentlemen yesterday's with today gigging in clubs or night clubs where where exactly actually i had a gig in harlem and harlem haraam i look forward to very soon performing at missed and mean that there are people who have actually moved into harlow who can go to the clubs and pay or why or they need something to do in harlem or what do you think it is i think the rents have soared and you now have higher and restaurants higher in restaurant you even have sushi restaurants remember a time where you would not find a sushi restaurant in harlem  corner yes and all those so along with that you have more venue's more possibilities of performing so that's the good side of it good so do you enjoy do you have the clientele i mean there in these clubs at a restaurant called bar one that's on the corner of lenox avenue it's actually two hundred linux haven't you at the corner of one hundred and twenty s street so you play there every way i play there every sunday and tuesday things are progressing though when you get ready to do your albums and you need a video you know there there is now carmen mathis intertainment they really do video that i love doing videos and that comes from my background of acting and singing in directing in all of that and now t v producing so now i can make videos  i thought i really don't need to add any more slit your wrists songs because i have so many of them smooth wrists so yes and people in the jazz world know exactly what i'm talking about the songs are just said meg tragic but there is something about this song when i heard dakota state and sing it it's called what do you see in her and the song you know it's a very short songs barely three minutes the you see  the people who helped me put the show together tonight i did then i asked the director she's in the control room along with kevin green in the control room we have a new person miss renee russell thank you renee and that's it and me and then we had some one person to come in the name thank you denene i think at your last name but thank you for the help that you  the facilitator to and i was rich thank you rich and thank you him and them for giving me this platform also i want to thank you for watching the common man at this show we're going into  and we've made changes as you can see here we're going to make even more changes so thank you for watching the carmen mathis show and to remember help somebody that's right help somebody and keep song in your heart until the next time this is carmen that this and i'll see as soon