welcome to education in the community i am your host the revenue robert mcknight and i have a topic far today is and her m her father we have mr edward perry and miss at perry welcome to the show with leah i want to compliment both of you on yo poirot i was about to jump out in my seat and you just sitting there smiling i would i had took a lot of composure not to get up and shout at lee i love that you have a beautiful voice tell me what you come across that was i want to go shop in that war studio where you got yours well i was about four years old and one day i was just coming around the house in my came along and had me and i church were having a talent show at the time and so she came and she told me that she wanted him to me into a talent show and i was like understand you also and what type of acting are you doing have you done well i've been in a movie with mr reggie gasket he's well he's a new producer and i'm going to be in a movie it's i don't know what it's called but we're shooting itself is that right yes you want to tell us something about that movie without really giving away the plot well and along with you are these to distinguish individual i'm going to let you reintroduced them to our audience when you do that now and that person sitting immediately to your left law so share with some of your insights some of the joys that she has brought into your life where you know she's she's a very warm person if i can sit on the couch and watch t v without  comes across a leader of the same thing about her shoes just warm and welcoming and we just feel so blessed and honored that god saw fit to trust us with such a jewel such as aali we're going to be singing at different schools is that right yes now what is this group you sing with at school well at my school i go  to go for the arts and we have if this is and if this is where they china's in our arts and i'm involved in a lot of students and vocal and our group we don't have a like a name for it but i department is local and so the vocoded hartman at oakland school of the art yes how many well going to puerto rico it's about sixty five in that travel to puerto rico now what is your role in this vocal group do you sing any solo well i'm one of the background singers for one of our songs that we're and you already read music you're light years ahead of me i don't sing in but one key off bad is great that that that is fantastic and show either of you what are some of the other activities that illyria has been involved with other than that choir in up to sing sing with her wound and i raised my hand and she told me that i can come up and there is this thing you raise your hand in an audience to go up on stage i commend you and she chose you and what was that like what did she have to say yeah me i would have been shocked that you actually anyone would raise their hand in a concert setting or church setting to get up to sing with shirley caesar it was amazing like as when she heard me face i felt like she was now you're telling me she was the opening act for bishop brand's yeah from singing with shirley bishop brands allen was going to be preaching at a church the very next day in o and so we were invited to attend the church and so before he saying he asked to come up and open up for him and so she opened up for a bishop and we've had a relationship with him since god chose to her to do the mighty thing in this world aaliyah is one of the youngest founders of our family charity in that it's called christmas in richmond and we're in our ninth year of christmas enrichment and she's the co founder aaliyah has given that the child she's given up her christmas to make someone else christmas special wow she does present taishan the month of november december and she gets other kids involved in christmas in richmond something now what is it and i want you to repeat the name of that organization again fall lawdy and it's called christmas so what are your goals what do you do we cook feed and clothe the less fortunate on christmas day we began about october collecting lightly worn or new clothing tollways food our first year our goal was to cook and feed and clothe one hundred families on christmas day we're now up to one thousand families on christmas day and we're in our ninth year now ok now i'm watching the show and i say i want to be a part of this i want to do you this coming christmas could you tell us how we could contact you died christmas in richmond died on we're going to give you that information again before the in the show because i know there are many in the audience that these to you are often thinking to yourself what can i do to help this is your opportunity to go out and buy a brand new toy brand new code for  this a special day has already given of her time and effort and sacrifice so that someone else can wear a smile own this day good use i have in a wonderful twenty to thirty two for the bicycles every year is that right because people with their gear from the heart and if i tell you from the first day to just see the people that email address stopped by on christmas day if you know of families who are in need can they send them by to get a hot meal yes you can yes to you you have planted the seed in the hearts of others in cities who are the show will be broadcast and that they may decide to again get the richmond i'm in san francisco but i've been inspired can i give you something else yeah clean is an enrichment have inspired the hearts of others there's a family out of the layo she had been watching it on the news for the last couple  years and she contacted me and said that that had told her to started in the layo year so she took the blueprint we met and i gave her the blueprint and the she's on her third year of christmas and the layo and and then there's another lady in hayward her family had been taking notice of christmas enrichment and she's now in her second year it's christmas and hayward year and lastly a lady at a houston texas i had heard about use so much that was very touching is blueberries can fly over the rainbow why can't i i tell you that  that was fantastic that was conscious awakening because the same god that created the bluebirds created it and he said that if he sees this most powerful how much more shall he care for us and that one of them fall to the ground that he doesn't know it and so if he has gifted the blue birds to fly high over the rainbow think about how much more and you are a shining example of this  audience god gifted you if a blue bird can fly that have your potential is limited and we are seeing this demonstrated colonials and we are just so happy that she took time out to come and share it with us we hope that you have found it very inspirational as much as we have and to all of the parent how beautiful it is to have not just a mother but the mother the father present with us standing aaliyah and so let the parents be in courage to know that when you give your child the love the attention they caring you help them sharing with us on education in the community and so on till next time we just beat you farewell but before we do just do a scale for me from your seat earlier we will go out on that we are going to go out with a lear stand up once again just give us of  and this guy