talk to her in a minute mateys and gentlemen please welcome to the carmen mathis show shar ne bet time  i always get them confused anyway they're so close yet so you were raised in maryland and then when did you come to our fair city i came to new york city in two thousand and ten to go to college i went to city college think you would you major in business major in business you just finish i did wow well congratulations for you always singing where you were yes my my mother father my brother we all grew up in a household of singers singing in church so so why didn't you major in music from well i studied business so that i can hopefully you know start a business in the music industry and in the arts i wanted to and i'm working on doing an action for you yeah i are you really think that you should go forward with that and i also think you should go for a new on the music and is learning how to do all these things in the television studio and i'll tell you that before that's right when i met you that's been the case so yeah i want to do that ok because in addition to doing your own record we'll know how to do your sound  produce your own self it's all ways better this is all with better ladies and gentlemen to produce your own self to to know how to do everything ok so good now when you got here and you were in school were you singing while you were in school in college or did you just start singing after you finish i did sing in and city college i saying for the st annual arts and cultural restaurants and throughout harlem and in the city ok do you have a job i mean do you have a business job or singing job or all of the above you could say all of that but being in new york and being an artist i always another project because i'm also a visual artist but right now i am the production coordinator at the center for arts and culture at brooklyn was a big influence when she was my age or a little younger she got a scholarship to be an opera singer and and so she was always doing solos in church and and then i began to take a leadership role and started a the young the youth choir in my church that i grew up in and of always been a leader just like my parents good for your mother go to college to her scholarship she went to again and thank you for why don't you how come you don't call me anymore yeah we will sing for us next well i also have a couple songs under my sleeve overjoyed gosh some of the names escape me now but he has so many so dynamic in his in the lyrics yes yes yes it is and i appreciate your beautiful dress that you have one for  in many different mediums painting sketching but i also took a class an etching and bookbinding side i would say i'm on time media art and really yeah so that means that we can so yes i would like some of that good to send me some shrink a ok good now you say you do you act do you where where have you been acting the national black theater of harlem rag when and where did you do there i start is dorothy as a guard and in an urban adaptation of the wizard of oz it was called it is called  what happened what i'm doing my thing here and she's she's has some great things in store for her there i wanted to pursue a recording career so right now i'm recording some music which is james maybe your mother saying that this she sings i just can't imagine why you would know that song i would say jazz is more of an influence from my grandparents i think of course my parents yes you know they have they enjoyed as well but my but my ok well i'll just share a little bit since we're getting personal little vaca while i was in city college i studied abroad to ghana and i've been so interested in learning about my history my background as a jamaican descent and family from south carolina so i went to ghana in two thousand and fourteen so every year since i do a project to give back to ghana last year i sent a big barrels to back to the village where i stayed wonderful supplies this year helping partnering with a classmate of mine with his business san health assistance program where they're funding funding good fund raising to provide medication for people in ghana who don't have access to health was to help or get with their gannett farming we helped to build a school and in the process i was able to teach a little bit and get to learn more about the culture goes so well how can we help so do you have the editor i'm the editor i'm the so i'll do it all right i have to do this and i was so happy that you are giving back because my monster at the end  help somebody i don't know if he's ever seeing that help somebody and so i'm happy that not only are you beautiful years talented in your singing you also help somebody you help people whole brand new crew you know think strange so today gloria bay who is was my student back in the day and i used to a one and we met up thirty years later i convinced her to take the classes i can probably say that she is now i wrecked ing this segment thank you gloria bay she also had to do a lot of other things as usual welcome back survivor marcus thank you new person also today is matt newby who signed up and crew connection so i met him for the st time today he's on camera thank you matt and also john make bad and it's also a new person he was taking the same class as gloria who convinced him to come on the show thank you cherokee black for making me look so beautiful thank wonderful things with people remember help somebody and keep a song in your heart