hello and welcome to the r and b still up close and personal i'm your whole being is and i'm here to help you through this musical dance we call life i'm going to be talking to gifted people in the community that can help us get through my guest today is a musical genius he is a writer a producer a teacher a preacher a husband a father a worshipper but most importantly and also a man of god and i think about us that now so i have some time to with my wife my wife or ger yes i know that really just attribute the balance of my life or you know and i just somehow make it through awesome awesome so now tell me give us rather a day in the life a day in the life of tires bush well it's because i make my own schedule i'm usually the one that gets up with the kids and i get them ready for school take them to school then i come back i do my daily devotion did you know that you wanted to sing it's been a part of me since before i can remember is there was never a decision that was made about oh this is what i want to do that is in me to do right i can't tell you a day whitney houston michael jackson and stevie wonder those are really my main core musical influence and the less that whitney houston in all of those men you name whitney houston why whitney whitney she is i just love her voice as you know i'm a vocalist and she is the voice right and i just love her phrasing and her addiction and how clear her voice well yeah is and the way she phrased song yeah it and you know it's so awesome and it is already done anything we would just remember it's already done here how to make life easier right here and that that's the thing that i have come to learn about god you know expected in for you that we just have to have faith in the to walk in it and to meet it and to be there when he needs us to be there so the way for i haven't been on many albums as as of yet because you know when when an artist records song they go through about you know twenty or thirty different songs that they record and then they only choose the best ten that right so i've worked with a lot of artists as it pertains to writing we did songs for shirley caesar  one of my writing friends and i wrote a song for r kelly wait r kelly now you name gospel and now that's definitely secular so how that come about yeah well well like i said it's about who you know and i was just at the right place at the right time and  even though the song didn't make the album it was just a great experience to to see those things happen in that way so i had a question about whether or not you would write for secular versus gospel because it seems like you're all gospel is that true well no i'm not i'm a writer so i tell stories through song and i think that you know when you limit yourself to just gospel you limit the gift god gave you you know it's there are or stories that i can tell there are focused on the scripture now the the principle of the story will line up with the scripture if i'm writing about a relationship that i have with my wife  you know it's going to line up with the scripture but it's not focused on jesus or creed you were about right so this is my life yeah and then you reach people some people you can't reach with just gospel and you may be able to reach them another  to expose kingdom principle yes so is the same thing when we write music for even if i write a music for brandy we did a song with the artist brandy if i'm writing a song for her it's about love it's about relationships i got about how we interact with people that we meet every day but the principle will still reflect price now it's been some time and our viewers may not know that you were on american idol back in two thousand and two i was a finalist and got cut right before the what is it the top thirty two now would you say that the american idol now is a good vehicle for aspiring well or now you know at one point i would have said that that was the case but you know the more i look at it i don't think that it's necessarily the vehicle that they should use because it doesn't prepare you properly and there's a back in the day in that cold day in whitney houston's day they came up through the ranks right they had to pay their  dues and in paying their dues they learned the industry they learned what to do and what not to do they learned how to present themselves like the temptations they came up that way to exactly you know but now if you go through you know the fifteen weeks or whatever it is for american idol you're thrust into stardom but you don't have any of the character that you need to keep you there and you know how to take care of yourself in what you do that all right here's a quick one idol versus the voice i actually like the voice  more it's just more relatable you know you have you have the actual interaction and the mentorship of the celebrities so that's better so now what would you say to an aspiring singer or someone aspiring to do whatever and they have low self esteem or they're very timid what kind of advice would you give them do you gotta sing yeah you got to know how to sing and i think that the number one thing if you are unsure about your gift you're never going to walk in the fullness of it so the number one thing you have to be is secure you have to know that god gave you a gift you have to own it and you have to prepare yourself you have to practice yes you also have to  not be afraid of being judged because it's going to happen yes a lot of people have a fear of being judged by people but what you have to offer some people are going to take it some people are going to leave and you have to be ok with that yes because if you don't have that somebody says something to me that's negative and they're really trying to hurt my feelings and i tried to find the truth in there and build on it you know so if they like what you just don't want too many runs and i don't like that i'll say ok you know did i do too many runs if i did too many runs let me dial it back a little bit because at the end of the day you know i want to be an artist that appeals to more than one person by now tyra's a gospel song sometimes cross over into the secular world and you can almost dance to them how do you feel about songs like that i personally am not a contemporary gospel artist i like my gospel more traditional  i'm not one of those closed gospel artists i don't not like it but it is just not for me i need to hear some church in there i think i'm with you if i'm walking somewhere and i hear it in my body will start to and i go wait a minute brothers and sisters and they can sing this is new a new group it's a new group all ok and i love i love what they do kia scherr she has some music that she does with her brother and you know it's just you know club and i love it but for me to sing is alright so now i tell our viewers with all of that what makes or how do you keep your marriage successful you've got all this stuff you in the music industry you've got three boys you've got a wife how do you keep this marriage successful well i think you know the senior pastor of phoenix versus simly in phoenix arizona gave me a great tip he said if you're doing ministry you need to find a place for your wife in your ministry because if you don't she's going to be alienated she is going to be always on the back burner so what my wife and i have done in what we do is we are teen we're team bush she does everything with me and my wife which are you know she really it's so funny because people say this and it's so cliche like you know when you find your love is like they complete me well she really does because you know where i'm blind she could even see the things that i can't see she's right on top of it you know so that's that's how we it we are friends and we laugh if i'm in the studio she's always welcome to come you know some people they're like oh i'm going to the studio i'm working i'm going to stay home no i'm trying to figure out how we can go together  i mean they all are like me in different ways my oldest son that's iris tyrus ok he's a talker ok and when i was his age i could not shut up all right i was a little but yeah so he's like me in that way  my youngest son princeton he is the comedian and you know that's a tree i'm a youngest i'm the youngest of three ok so i was the comedian in my household so he's that way you know like i was and then my middle son nereid he's the musician the singer he's the the drummer he wants to play everything oh they're all like me in different ways that's also so now would you presume or encourage them to pursue a career in music or ministry absolutely i actually want them to be part of ministry in some way i think everybody should be a part of ministry in some way now it doesn't necessarily have to be music but i do think that working in ministry is necessary for everybody i wouldn't push them to do anything musically but if they wanted to do something musically i would support  because we're still in the processing stages of it ok but what i can say is that we're having the right conversations with the right people good so hopefully by the end of this he he pastors the church and he's an artist as well and all throughout my life i've been here oh you know life passes and i take it with a grain of salt because anybody who  can get up in front of a church and looks comfortable with people i love to say oh you're passing but i really do feel like you know that i do have a heart for people and a heart for god's word so not now not now not about you know it's com when people hear the name tyrus bush what do you want to come to their mind when they hear the name tyra's bush i wanted to be  i want people to know that worship is not just something you do on sunday mornings it's not just at a lemonade or eight thirty am but it's something that we do every day and the music the legacy that i want to leave with people is that worship is a lifestyle my music reflects that worship is a lifestyle my wife and my family are an example of how