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Ep 226 Harmonie Breeze

March 11, 2025 • Ray the Roadie & Hollywood Mike • Season 7 • Episode 226

With Harmonie’s broad interest of genres, her acoustic setlist will surely have you on the edge of your seat wondering which of your favorite songs she’ll be playing next! Whether it’s a 90’s grunge favorite from Nirvana, a classic Jefferson Airplane song from the late 60s, or even a stripped down pop song sang by Katy Perry from 2010 turned into a slow acoustic ballad, Harmonie strives to put together a diverse setlist to bring joy to everyone’s ears and joy through her playful crowd banter.

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Coming to you from the studios at the Illinois Rock'n'roll Museum on Route 66, it's the Rock'n'roll Chicago podcast.

Hey everybody, it's Ray. The Rodney.

And this is Hollywood. Michael, how you doing?

Ray, I'm doing great.

I'm doing fantastic.

Good. We finally figured out. The mixing board here at the.

Podcast I know we can hear our radio voices loud and clear.

We can we sound really good.

It's. The massive compression in the whole bit.

Yeah, I mean, we can almost harmonize together. Almost. I know harmonies are are, you know, harmonies are so important.

Like, they're like the fresh summer breeze.

The thing is, if you don't have good harmonies. People are going to forget you like the breeze.

I know exactly that. That's right. We have. Good harmonies, we do. Yeah. Where?

Right across the table from you.

Oh, everybody, we've got her.

Don't look at me.

Yeah, not you. Not me, we've. Hurry and we have hurry everybody.

Harmony breeze.

Oh, we did activate our applause.

No, we can. There, there.

How many breeze? How you doing?

Wonderful. I think with a name like that, you only had one. To go into music, honestly, yeah. Is that? Is that your real name? Really.

Yes it is. Like. Think I'm lying about it and stuff. Like, no, it's a stage. You made that up, but it's like on. Birth. It's my name, my whole life.

And musics always been a part of my life. I. I kind of did a lot of things growing up, but I feel like. Name being harmony. Of just manifested music to be like my calling in a way.

Yeah, they you were willed into it.

Is what it was. Yeah, you're the second person that has a perfect name for for music. Think I was in Vegas one time and made a fantastic singer. Name is Sage Waters. Cool. I mean, that's her actual name.

It's really cool.

Yeah. So it's like, you know, you have two choices, singer or you own a little tea shop that sells olive oils or something like that, yeah.

Sage and. It's gonna be some kind of tea teaser. Just leaves with water.

So we don't have cameras or anything set up, so we should probably just say that harmony is a is a young person probably probably way too young to have these successes that you've had in music in the years. Why don't you start there? Don't you tell us your whole story and everything and how this all started for you?

Music wise, like in the area.

Yeah. Well, what got you into? Other than your name.

Well, I kind of started doing musical theater and stuff. Started lessons when I was like 5. I was doing all sorts of things like theater I. Acting. Modeling all. Growing up, I ended up doing commercials and as I went on with theater, I kind of realized that I just. I liked the music part more than I liked the dancing and and I just started, like, listening to bands and being really invested in guitar and stuff. So. Think when I was like 11, I was like, OK, I want to like really focus on music and I want to learn more about it, how it's created, how to make my own music. And then it just spiraled into craziness. Now here I am.

OK. Were you a singer? That kind of came along with the musical theater and everything.

Yeah, I started singing before. My mom kept trying to put me in like piano lessons growing up, but for some reason I was really bad at practicing, so I just think singing was always like the biggest thing for me. Then. A while it was. OK, guitar seems more interesting than. I was just never really good at sheet music. Be honest it all. I didn't want to, like, sit down and like. Oh, what? These dots and lines mean like no. I more so wanted to feel it out because that's how I always did it vocally, was just feeling out like how? Make the noise I guess. And whatever. So.

Right, right, right. So. So where are you originally from, are you? Are you from the area?

I'm from Illinois. Was born.

I was technically born in Morris, but I grew up in like the Shinooka area. So like Grundy County. But we moved to like Crest Hill, Joliet area when I was. Eight or nine and then.

Just stayed in Joliet.

Where'd you go?

To high school, I was homeschooled.

Oh, were you really never been?

To school before, like, ever.

Everyone. Ever.

Wow, ever, ever. Never. Never, ever.

What? What district are you in? Where would you have gone?

It's kind of. I live it like because the Joliet, I guess district lines are weird. Like I think half of. Neighborhood. Go to Joliet Central and the other half would. To West. So one of those two schools, I'm not positive, but.

Right, right. No kid, no.

Something like that.

OK. So I mean, there's a reason why I'm asking all of those personal questions, because I've actually been wanting to meet you for a long time. Probably have no idea who I am, but you have a lot of friends and you know a lot of people. I know and I kind of kept it a secret. So. So I've known Joe Asia for. Years and years and years and years. Actually, come on. Podcast. Interviewed him not too long, not too long ago.

Yeah, Nathan liberty.

I love. Yeah, I love Joe too.

No, Nathan, yes. We we had Nathan here when? When he was a guitar player with don't matter to me and we know everybody and don't matter to me and and the whole bit. Yeah, I've seen you. I've seen videos of you and stuff online performing with people that I know and that's why I was so excited.

To to have you come on the show, I wanted to go. And. You in person, when you were at Sabal Creek.

Because the the houses that you can see if you're standing in the parking lot of Sable Creek. Houses that you can see. That's my subdivision. And I guess performed there myself a couple of weeks ago. Our paths just have not been able to to cross because whenever you're playing, I'm playing and. And it's we. Haven't we haven't been able to meet up yet, so.

I I noticed that happens a lot like there's a lady named Colleen Wilde and I see her everywhere and everybody knows her, but I've never actually like, crossed.

Or no Colleen too? Yeah.

With her. But she's like a really amazing musician. And everybody knows they're like, don't you know, Colleen Wild? And I'm, like, literally never met her. But like, I see her everywhere and.

She's really great.

I know she has blue hair.

Yeah, she's real pair cool songs. Just.

Know everything about her.

Yeah, yeah, I I actually met her at the. I used to host the Sunday jams at the studio before a few things changed over there and it's under different management everything now, but I'm not calling over there for a while. So so yeah that we know a lot of the same people, so I wanted to.

If I couldn't see you perform, I least wanted to get you in here and. A chat with you real quick, yeah.

Yeah, officially meet you. And then we can have, like, a bigger conversations, longer ones.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So where was the? Where was like the first place you started playing around here after you've decided you're going to sing and play guitar or when did you? I guess when did you? Where did you have your coming out? I guess is the best way to put it.

So. I started doing open mics before I had a gig and my first open mic was at Black Dog vinyl. At least around here I had played one gig before that on my own. Was for like the anti animal cruelty and it was at like Wrigley Field. And that was just kind of for fun. Was doing it. There I was just kind of testing the waters, especially like playing acoustically on my own. But I started with the Black Dog open mics and then he offered me one of the record store days and then it just kind of spiraled into more.

Then I think my second gig. It was at one of those Lockport ones, Nick and Ivy.

Yeah, right. Right.

Yeah. So my second one, I believe was there, but I had like quite a few at Black Dog beforehand. And now usually I do the record store days like almost every year for them.

It's been really fun with that, right?

And you know, now that you're saying that there was a night where. Joe actually invited me to go to black. Dog because he was going to be. I love his songwriting and he was going to debut a couple of new songs, so I showed up late one night and you were literally getting off the stage. Was playing guitar with. And you were literally getting off the stage. I had about 30. I had a beer and I took off and I never I really didn't speak to anybody except for Joe, but I was.

Was sitting at. At the same. With do you know Charles Pelkey? Who goes?

Quite a bit. I was sitting at the same table with him but it. A night that you were performing with Joe.

Wow, just missed it like that.

Yeah. Absolutely. So who are your big influences? Do. Who do you listen to?

I feel like I have such a wide variety of like people that I listen to. Like my Spotify rap this year was so. It was like Tim McGraw, Chapel Rd. Slipknot. Like Aretha Franklin, like it's just everywhere, right? I mean, obviously people like that. I really love the song music like Aretha Franklin and Etta James. Like vocally.

They're just so talented and they have so much control in their voice. But also I pick up on a lot of like Hayley Williams from Paramore or like Gwen Stefani from no doubt, she's. Really like crazy. I feel like I picked up on that too. So those. Some huge inspirations that I feel like you can kind of hear when. Singing, Angela.

It it sounds like you're you're influenced by singers that are from like the 50's, the 60s and the 70s and and then you and then you jump to like the 2000s.

Yeah, I'm older.

There's like nothing in between there, so it's it's like you're skipping over your whole, I guess, personal era of music with your, with your vocal influences, yeah.

I guess. Why? I don't know. I think just. On what I grew up around. I think my parents had two kind of super different music. Like kind of. And they were from like, 2 completely different eras. That's kind of just what I've always known. And I have like adventured out to kind of listen to other artists, but like in the end. Feel like I just grew. So I'm so like used to listening to that music that I grew up in that sort of way with the influences that I have so.

You know, I don't think parents quite understand the influences that they have on their children.

Well, they don't. When it comes to.

Music they really. Because every time we ask that question, it's always well, it's my mom or. Dad or. They you know, it's it's always the first answer. That's right. Yeah. So parents fight to keep music in.

School. That's right.

Or in home schools.

Or listen to good stuff at home. Listen to crap.

Yeah, that's yeah, that's right.

Don't don't let the kids listen to that.

Yeah, and don't don't do that yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I'll tell you.

Listen to good stuff.

The way here I was listening to. Your I don't want to say watching. I was driving. I was listening to your to like a 15 minute video of of yours from Sable Creek, but I I think it might have been like a 15 minute set you were doing at the at the open mic that Jesse Perez hosts. And man, I was listening and I.

I found myself saying I wish I could hear her in. I wish I could hear her live and I wish I could hear her without all of these people talking over her. That is so irritating, isn't it?

Mean sometimes. How do you deal with that?

I just tuned it out. I feel like I just focus so much on what I'm doing that I don't really pay attention or even notice it sometimes. I. And then. Like, oh God, like, is this going? But like overall, I try to just like worry about myself and make sure that I'm doing good, because if I'm doing good, that doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks or is doing.

You must perform solo. Right. You don't have a full band.

I do solo. I dabble with bands sometimes, like I have a little project with some friends called like pulling. Do. I also. A lot of like duo or sometimes even trio sets so. I don't know I. I really like to collab with other artists, so just depends on the day and where I'm going, where I'm playing, what I'm. So, right.

Writing a lot of new music.

OK. 'cause, I mean all I've seen so far is covers, so I'm really interested to see what the, what the, what the original stuff would be.

Original sound.

Yeah, melody for sure.

The lyrics or the melody mm.

I've tried to like write with poems and stuff, but then I feel you just get really tripped up. If I have like a. In mind, it's. Way easier to figure out. Like how many syllables of words that I need for the song. You know.

There's no right or wrong.

It's just that some.

People are inspired differently.

I'll tell you what we're gonna. We're gonna take another quick break here real quick. It's about time we hear your first song I'd love.

Love to hear we get we get. Private performance.

Yeah. So the first time we are.

To be. Harmony. That's right. Is right here. The three of us.

That's. Just three of us.

No pressure or anything.

No, no, no, none whatsoever.

We'll right back.

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And for the first time tonight we have Harmony Breeze here in the studio going to play a song for us.

This is a song I wrote with some friends of mine, and it's on Spotify under. Holy on. Wall kind. Golly. I don't. We were just trying to write some songs and my one friend was like you should try to write a song kind of about like high school because. Older. Me and I was like 18 when we wrote. And I'm almost 20 now.

And you. No experience in high school.

For one, I like never even had a boyfriend till I was 18 and they were like, let's write a song about high school love and I never went to high school and I never had a.

And I was like, yeah.

Never, never did crown never did homecoming. Did anything?

Yeah. So, I mean, they had some input that helped me. China have some inspiration with the lyrics, but overall this is kind of just my interpretation of it as well. And yeah, this is.

What? You know I have. I have to ask most respectfully, is it?

Is it just a family philosophy that some people have a religious belief? Was the reason for being homeschooled and.

I think my parents just grew up in the public school system and they didn't like it that much. And my mom also was having us do, like acting and modeling, and that took up a lot of time.

And it was a lot easier to go. Auditions. Do the commercials and stuff without a teacher being like, hey, you missed like 50 days of school so we could just, like, do it on the.

And. So it was like really easy. We could do it at night after we shot or whatever, like our commercials. So it was more convenient out of anything.

Right, right, right, right. See, I could have been a superstar if my parents would have homeschooled me.

Dad, you. I also probably wouldn't be able to. But you know. Who needs adding? That's right.

I mean, how? Many times. You used algebra this week.

All right. All righty.

Well, I'll tell you what. Take it away. Love to hear it.

He didn't take a walk. Alone let me talk to Sarah now. Oh.

In silence and just enjoy having each other. And when the butterflies fly around. I'm the one that you care about. Pitfalls always start after.

I'm a day if my favorite farm. I'll always hate. No. I'm so wrapped around. You can always say if you want in house, doesn't matter if I feel too left out. Or too those when I'm going to try and not have a star. I. My heart inside for you. I lovely.

Yeah, very nice.

Yeah, and this is the first time where it's OK she brought just. Dudes, with it's all dudes. Yeah. Normally we have guys in here and. Bring the dudes to a club.

You know, just thank you. Very. So where does? So where does somebody who so you wrote a? About school and you. Know stuff like that, right?

So how do you meet people to influence you in that regard being? I'm I'm just curious where where do those influences and experiences come from when they are so. So so different I guess, than what you're writing about.

Jeez, I feel like it's more so like. The idea. Seeing it in movies out of anything because I never really experienced anything like that, I mean.

Yeah, I guess so. So you got kind. You got kind of a weird distorted version.

Like a pizza 1st. I mean, of course, like growing. Like now that I'm older and everything older like 19. But you know, I started meeting more people and now I've actually had boyfriends and experiences of it. And like, I think over time, like, even when you're like super young, you have like, a little crushes and stuff like. That. I you kind of get that inspiration, but I think especially being like like. Younger I was always very shy about having crushes and things like that, which I think were a lot of those lyrics came from of kind of like ohh. Like I'm not gonna be very outgoing about my feelings or anything. So I think that helped kind of find.

Some kind of outlook? Yeah. To like this huge kind of topic that I had not a lot of experience of. So. And I think kind of the idea of it being high school love is like when you're in the relationship. And you're in high school and you don't really see, like, oh, when you we go off to college like we're to be in two different States and things like. You think it's gonna last forever and it's like the best thing in the world. But as you get older, you guys go on, like, different paths. And it's just kind of like, oh, well, this is not working out anymore.

Right, right, right, right. So yeah, I heard. I heard a songwriter say something that was actually very profound and and it was a young person like yourself, a boy, about 16 years old actually. And he says, you know. Every relationship that you're in ends tragically until you meet the person that you're going to be with for the rest of your life. That's pretty deep for a 16 year.

I don't know. I don't know if ends, tragically, is. The is the right way to put it, but it it doesn't end well. Put it that way.

It never feels good when it ends for sure.

Right. Yeah. That's what's tragic about it, right?

Yeah, I guess so. I guess. You know, it doesn't necessarily mean it ends in a bloody train wreck, but you know.

So you said you weren't disciplined enough to play the. How did you get yourself to discipline yourself to play the guitar? Good question I.

I got one once in a.

While yeah, because I feel like anybody can play the piano. But man, it's the guitar is probably the one instrument that. People begin and quit more often than anything else.

And because you pick it up and you go and you say, oh, that hurts.

And I'm. I'm not doing this anymore.

Yeah. Yeah, good question.

That is a good question. Honestly, I just started looking up YouTube videos like how to play chords and stuff and like what's nice about guitar is you. If you could play. Like two or three chords, you can play entire songs, so it was really easy for me to feel like I was succeeding in it. Whereas when it came to piano, I try to like read the sheet music and then it's like, OK, well, I know how it sounds.

Going to play the keys. I know it right? Actually, my mom thought when I was first, like picking up guitar that it was just going to. Like. Phase and I had this like really crappy, like $50 Amazon acoustic guitars. Were like plastic and I'm like. I want a real guitar when I like your guitar and she's like, OK, but that's like really expensive, and you're probably going to. Play it for two weeks and like. Never touch it again. So I was like, OK. Well, how about like? If I. Learning on this guitar and I show you that I'm working on it. Can I get? And she was like, if you like, actually stick to it, then. Yeah. And I spent either, like, a month or a month and a half just playing this, like, really crappy guitar. Action was. I think it helped me like overall.

Most definitely yes.

With chords and stuff. And like every day I would like write down something new and I'd watch like a new YouTube video, and I try to learn like a different song every day. And it was like. At this point.

Was your first song.

Oh my gosh, I think it was some call. Was it called? I think was love at first sight by the Brobex and it was so like obscure and weird because I was like a panic at the disco fan and I was like, Oh my gosh.

I knew about all the Members.

Love that band? Yeah. Yeah, I do, yeah.

They they were very. A huge inspiration to me at that point and the basis in that band was down weeks and he had this project before he was in panic of disco, called the Brokeback and that.

They have an. On Spotify, that's like, so amazing. And I was like, oh, I'm gonna learn that because there's there's like a little start to it that's kind of like a guitar lick, right. I was just very choppily like playing it, but I was figuring.

It out, right? Right.

Like that, I was watching the play so the chords in that song. Were. Playing what were the chords in that?

I'm not going to make you think.

Mainly I think in the chorus.

Yeah, in the chorus.

Oh, the chorus. So it goes. A and then yeah.

But that was a kind of. Funky a. You were playing there. Though I see you're just using three fingers, OK?

Yeah, I'm just using 3.

Yep, yeah, yeah.

Don't. Barring is like I'm not that good of barring like. Do you hear that? There you go.

But you were playing some bar chords in.

There, though? Yeah. So then I played this and then up here.

Like that's a that looks like a bee some sort.

It's a bee, but like, only the fingers are there. Don't know what?

And that, yeah, that that is probably AB sevens, right?

It's called to be honest.

I just do it so like this. And then.

Minor and I take the middle off, which makes that like something.

Yep, Yep. Yeah, yeah, that's what that looks like.

What is that called?

Do you mind if?

Yeah, right. So.

So the reason why is because did you notice? Did you notice? You know where I'm going with this?

There's no cable.

Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right. She's actually playing these chords. I mean, she didn't pull out the Cape. I see that every single. Think about how many times we've had people in here and they pull all. Gotta put the all my caples on the. Spot. Hold on. How about you learn how to play an?

What's the weather?

Yeah, that's a good. I had one of my first guitar teachers ever. Name was Bailey. Was. I miss her to be honest, because she was like at the school that I went to, but then I graduated out of it and she left before I even graduated. Begin with, which is not the point. But basically I had this teacher. She was like. You rarely ever need a capo like. You just gotta figure out how to play it right spot and there you go.

So I always try to do it. A capo, yeah.

Well, you. There's people that they're, you know, people are I I get. You know, there's people that play the the G, the D, the C in first position and their hand is strongest there and they're really good at fighting those chords in the whole bit so. My hands don't hurt when I play those recordings. So I'm just going to slide the cable up. Down the neck. I get. But you know, you're kind of missing out a little bit on that that so that's great that you're not playing with the cable.

Learn how to play with the cable. I try to tell everybody don't don't learn how to play with the cable. A capo is something that you get to do after you've done your homework and you've learned how to play the guitar.

Everybody I know, I know well if you do.

I never use it.

Your own work on your own guitars. If you do your own setups and things like that, you have to have a cable. I mean, I have two cables. Both in my toolbox.

You will not find a cable when my guitar case. So yeah, but interesting that's that's that's really good. What have you been playing lately?

I've been trying to play everywhere. I had a gig at Sable Creek. I had.

That wasn't too. That wasn't too long ago, right?

That was, I think, last month.

Yeah, there's after you.

I can't remember was after me or before me, but I know I know that you had your own gig there, but I can't.

You know things after.

Can't remember actually. It may have been like the week.

Yeah, I play at Allianz which. Come floats into white. I play there.

I also play at the Irish Corner Cantina Monthly, which is right in Joliet for like over the bridge.

No. Right, right, right, right.

So it's hard to get to.

And everywhere over the bridge is hard to. To, for me at least.

So you're on this side of Joliet, OK?

Yeah, I'm like, I don't even know if it's 5 minutes away from here.

Oh, you're awesome.

And this is your first time. At the museum. Oh, wow. No kidding. Yeah.

Surprisingly tight lived over. For like maybe seven years now. Yeah, we live.

I don't know if you ever been that way. Well, maybe I shouldn't say where I live. Podcast. Never mind.

You don't have to know, but I live.

Let everybody. Yeah, yeah, you probably.

In a nice little house and I like it and we have a lot of land.

Of course, stables and stuff.

So I have a pretty good idea as to where you are then, because there's a there's an area over. Where there is a lot of horse stables and stuff.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.

And I'm still in the dark. Right.

We can say that discussion.

They know, I know. I actually live on the other side of the river, so I know what you're talking about.

And I love the town of Dwight.

I play someplace in. Oh, probably about 6 to 10 * A. So when I actually have a date coming up in alien, alien were looking for sponsorship.

We are in for the podcast every week. Looking for sponsors?

Absolutely. The cheery red roasters and Cherry Red Roasters would be a good one, too.

Did you good? Maybe. Sponsor too.

Be a good sponsor too, but yeah, we I love. I love Dwight. I absolutely love Dwight.

I've never. Like any bad experience being down there.

Well, well, I should take that back the the only time anybody tried to rob me, I shouldn't say that. Shouldn't say that. Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't say the only time because I had that experience in Minnesota one time, too. The only time anybody's ever tried to rob my band. Happened in Dwight. I'm not going to say where it was because it's a it's a the place that's there now was not there at the time. And I'm going back probably 15-16 years or something like that.

But yes, are you talking about somebody that hired you?

No, no, no. I'm talking about somebody that was waiting for us in the parking. It was we were loading up our gear and and he he met the.

He met the base end of my round microphone. Know the the round microphone stand base. Wow, he got. He got a no, I.

Need someone up.

No, I didn't beat him up, but he got to see what the bottom of these things taste like.

Put it that way.

Really, he didn't. There's 10 people in that band.

Oh no, this was. This was before Cadillac Group, but he was there by himself.

Before that. OK done.

I understand. But anyways, yeah, he was there by himself with a. You know, yeah.

I've never been. Knock on wood, I'm very grateful.

Yeah, we don't.

Yeah, but anyways. But no, I love the time of Dwight.

Don't like? Don't let that tarnish anybody's opinion of. I I do play in a band there and every time our band plays there, it's like all the stoplights are flashing red. No cars on the.

Everybody is where we're playing and they are just so hospitable. I will play anywhere in the. Anytime they ask me. A fantastic place.

Yeah, I think it's nice 'cause. It's kind of like a small town. So everybody kind of knows. Other and just enjoys each other.

Yeah. When when is that allian's date coming up?

That one's not scheduled. We we do that a lot like month of it's like, hey, you want to play this date. So I do have some scheduled like the Gray Mills estate I.

Is on the 7th. Trip D's is on like the 15th Black Dog Lionel 16th, and it goes on and on. If you check my.

Of March, you're talking gasoline.

This will be out on March 18th.

Yes, anything after March 18th is what we're looking for.

Gosh, wait. If you give me two seconds, I can fine.

Have a whole list of date so after March. 18 oh, I'm playing Johnny Cab for the first time, April 5th.

I'm so excited for that.

Johnny Cabs, I I didn't know they were doing solo. Artist at Johnny cabs.

Yeah. So I went to one of their open mics in January and I guess what they do is. Have like. Like whole, full bands during the weekends or whatever, but before the bands come on, they like to have a little bit of acoustic music.

Right, right. Oh, nice.

Kinda think the people up that are there.

Because I've seen videos of people. Dancing and going crazy there. It's. Kind of like the warm up back to the. Party at the end of the night.

Yeah, 'cause. There's still people eating at like, 7:00 or whatever it is, and they don't want a full band. You know who you're opening up for?

I don't know any information about that.

I. Soon this will find out.

That will be a. That's a nice stage and everything there.

For sure. Well, I think we need to hear another one.

I think so too.

Yeah, let's do that.

Another one, OK.

Yeah. Yeah, we're going to pause it for just a second. You set up all.

Right. All righty. You're listening to the Rock'n'roll Chicago podcast.

And one more time. We've got Harmony breeze.

This is one of my most popular ones. I've had people request it before and I also just see a lot of people get like excited and happy when I play it. That's like the most fun thing about performing is when people like are.

When when Ray gets excited and happy, gets a little creepy smile, don't let that bother you.

Well, I'm sure a smile is totally fine and is great. This is saying seal delivered by Steve.

Now I'm wondering if you love this song. Baby here I. Sons need to deliver. I'm yours. Now. Here I am baby. I see you delivered on your. The. Read a lot of things in this whole world. When I touch. The liver, I'm. Yours. No. I. Hey, babe. South Hill delivered on your. Head baby. Spunky delivered from your. I. A lot of food, things that really didn't need.

Very nice. Very nice. You know, you know, I have to. I have to. I have to apologize for that. I have to. Yeah. See, I told you guys a creepy smile. See, I came in and I said to Ray. I saw this video over. Did this. Sealed, delivered by Stevie Wonder and he. At. Creek Winery and I and I said, yeah, I she got about 1/3 of the way through the song before I realized when she was, when she was playing.

I I think it's because. And you might even know the person that's on this video if you go on your YouTube channel and watch the video, you might even know the person. But there was this guy just being obnoxious and talking all over you like I could barely hear anything you were saying. Could barely hear guitar and then right through the middle of. Song. He even goes. ****, I'm standing in front of the phone. And you, you heard.

You hear him clear as day. Is clear as I'm talking. You right. So all I'm all I'm hearing is his voice and in the background I'm hearing something that sounds like signed, sealed, delivered yours. And when he realized that he was that he was in front of your camera.

Do you think that stopped them? Because all you kept. Was, hey, Tommy, give me another glass of wine and get.

So I'm glad you played that one because you know, I heard and I. Like, Oh yeah, I barely heard her. Wasn't really strong on it. And then I realized, oh, no, you. That's a really good cover.

That's a really good cover because you were being drowned out by some guy that had too much wine.

We got a nice high quality cover.

That's really nice. Cool.

So you much original stuff, do you? That you've. You have enough to put a EP, Elden. Or something.

That's the goal for this year.

Honestly, I have a really bad habit of like writing things. I don't finish them.

I feel like kind of like a New Year's resolution for me to stop doing that and like once I start something, I finish it till the end, even if it's something that I don't like. I never want to play in front. People. I don't play in my originals too often. I think, especially because when I get hired to do. It's like. Well, they want covers. They don't really want to hear like my original music. But I've been wanting to focus on original music more and just finishing those songs that I'm constantly like, oh, this is a good idea. This sounds good together, OK. Now I have this other idea. I feel like I don't have ADHD, but when it comes to writing like it's not like how? Imagine people with ADHD are. It's like, well, there's this idea and that. I want to do this and I want to do that. Maybe there's a better word than ADHD for that. I don't have ADHD.

Now every, every, every musician, every musician has ADHD. Yeah, it. Yeah, something shiny goes by. You're distracted. Yeah, I think there's a little bit of it. With all of this squirrel. Yeah, yeah. But no, seriously though. We talked about this all the. You should finish every song, even if it's even if you think it stinks.

Finish. See it to the end because you start, you start to create a habit if you get. A verse in the course. Verse. The course and you make it to a bridge and then you don't know how to finish. The song guess. You don't know how to finish every single song that you write. You're practicing to do that.

You've got to you've got to get over it.

Can always change.

Can always come.

And change it. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I. Adam Sandler has made a career on writing corny lyrics.

How does the? Just, you know, even if they're corny. Finish the. You can always go back and change it. You really? Yeah. And it's OK. You know, it's OK to sneak two to three songs in per set. You know, do.

Do 4 covers 545 covers? In an. Don't say anything, just do it.

Yes, you people. If people notice some people might be like, oh, I just never heard the song before.

Or some people or some people think that it sounds familiar to. And you know. I've even I've had people come up to me and I play the songs I prefer to write like Southern Rock and Blues and stuff like that. And I've had people come up to me and say. Hey, you know I've never heard that Z top song before.

Dude, that's awesome. Movie top.

Ohh I've I've heard that. Before I know, yeah.

Yeah, that was off. That was off. Their second album, wasn't it? Yep, that's that's what it was. Yep.

Yeah, you just just tell him the right. Totally, dude.

Yeah, right. Right, right.

So you have a few shows coming up. How can people find you? Mentioned you've got a. Channel.

I got a YouTube channel. Yeah, I have. Website and it's www.harmonybreeze.com. My Facebook is the same thing. Breeze but you. To be mindful because a lot of people spell it. HARMONY. And it's not. My parents spelled my name completely wrong on the birth certificate, but it was totally intentional.

I blame the home. I. I blame the. That's. The things you have AE IOU.

Well, they went to public school, so maybe find the public school for that.

Phonics. Phonics.

But yeah, so it's harmony. But like.

But there's no S at the end. So then I at the end and then breeze is spelled completely normal.

So I've got my Facebook on there like. I've got my Instagram. Basically all my socials are harmony breeze.

So wherever you want to find me, just put that in. You'll find it.

Yeah, just Google me.

Probably, and all of it will come up.

OK. Excellent, excellent. Well, hey. Pleasure meeting you finally.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Finally.

Yeah, was, yeah.

I'm gonna have to come out and see you. When?

When I'm not working. Vice versa.

I'm sure meet again.

Yeah, yes, I, you know, I think. Facebook friends. Probably yeah, because I think we've got like 36 common friends or something like that.

Yeah. Of course we.

This community is so like small and tight knit.

You know one person, you know everybody else.

And if we're not friends, we will be.

We will be exactly exactly. Alright. Well, thanks for coming.

Yes, thanks a lot. Yes, thank you.

It was a pleasure talking to you. Great meeting you. Sounds great.

Thank you very much. Well, the breeze is left.

The building. The breeze left the building. Don't know. I describe her as the breeze.

I wonder if she's related to the guy that they call the breeze.

Orange juice. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. We haven't, you know, the amazing. We haven't gone next door and had any bourbon.

No, no, not yet. We're coming. Do this sober.

That's the that's. Yeah, dad. Jokes galore.

No, she you know. She was. I'm glad I got to meet her finally. She's. She's been. Been. She's been doing quite a few things around around town. I see her all over the place though.

That, she said.

And, you know, she taught herself how to play, and she started going to open mic nights. You know what we've told people do that. Countless times, right?

Learn how to play in front of people. Play with other people and she did.

That well, you know, I think she's she's. Come the the main. I mean, she she's done acting in commercial right vision and stuff like. So getting up in front of the people wasn't the problem for her. It was probably getting comfortable with the with the musical chops, and she's well on her way for sure.

That's true. True.

Yeah, that was a really good cover of science.

It. Yeah, I was. I like.

It was like an. It was like if ever. You know, did science seal the? It kind of had that feel to it, right?

You gotta put your own twist to it, man. The last thing you just like? You didn't even have glasses on so, but.

Right. Yeah, she didn't. That was it.

That was Harmony breeze, everybody. A lot of fun. Sure, you get out and see. She's playing all over the place, even in Dwight. So she's making the trip down there, so. As always, thanks for listening to the Rock'n'roll Chicago Podcast and TuneIn every Tuesday for another. New. See you next week. The Rock. Roll Chicago podcast is edited by Paul. Theme song courtesy of M&R Rush, the Rock n Rroll Chicago podcast does not own the rights to any of the music heard on the show. Music is used to promote the guests that are featured.

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