Debbie, it is such an
honor to chat with you.
Thank you first of all.
So much for taking the
time to talk with me today.
So thank you for having me.
Yes, no thank you and Sister Sledge.
I mean wow, talk about a group that has
made an impression over generations.
1979 made a massive,
massive impact with we are family.
Everybody knows that song and now
you're celebrating 50 years in the
entertainment industry in show business.
Congratulations. Where did that go?
Scares and it's been
a rollercoaster. Wonderful ride
and is a great journey so we're
very very very blessed to be able
to to say that and experience
what I'm experiencing even now.
Sister Sledge.
You know one of the best selling female
black groups of all time, right?
Huge deal. A lot of tenacity,
a lot of grit to get there and to
get where you are today as well,
which I hear you attribute a lot
to your grandmother, is it Viola?
Is that correct?
And my mom and I actually we have we
had my mom had many sisters so it's
it repeated itself and and her and her
sisters they sang but they didn't.
You know they didn't sing publicly,
they sang in, you know, just for family fun.
And so we grew up around that.
So that's an amazing story too.
We had all these very strong
women in our family
and we are so glad that you did.
'cause now you're sharing that
strength with with everyone else right?
And you have been for the past 50
years and now you're doing it again
and impacting future generations.
So tell us about the comeback
of Sister Sledge.
Thank you, I'm so excited because I
now have are we now have our children
who have joined us in launching Sister
Sledge Featuring's legendary and that's
we're so proud of that name too.
That's fantastic. Yeah,
so I have my daughter who is so strong.
I mean, my goodness, she's running a
school called the School of Hip Hop.
Band called the Afrobeat Orchestra,
which he is the you know the lead out
front the front man on the on that group.
She is so strong that that and I also have
very strong female Member that is Tanya TA.
She is around the same age as my daughter
so I also think of her as a daughter.
I have my son.
His name is David Sledge and call him David.
His name is David.
You go for by the name Young Dave, but.
Then we have Thaddeus,
who is my sister, Joni son.
These are all phenomenal artists,
and I'm so excited to just
be with them to mentor them,
and they're actually teaching
me an awful lot. Also,
that's beautiful, and I do have to ask,
you know, with you know,
Black History Month upon us,
and then the revitalization of Sister Sledge.
I mean, do do you look at this
as possibly an opportunity to
use music to heal and spa and
inspire future generations?
Especially when it comes to like.
Racial equality
definitely, definitely,
and the thing that I am teaching
my children is to 1st be very
comfortable and to love yourself.
I think that's what's that's what's
going to start with with all of us,
and we have to have a love for ourselves.
And that is what I'm I want to.
I want to keep the strengthening
in them because and they know
that they they have that.
But you know, we often come across.
Things that will try to disrupt that that
strength and and and that's just I want
that to help us to get stronger, you know.
And and I'm very proud of them
because that's what they are doing.
We often have family meetings.
We often encourage each other
and also especially on stage and
as artists we are promoting.
Positive messages,
which is a tradition that we've carried on
from Sister Sledge and we're also promoting.
Just.
Accepting others accepting first,
you have to accept yourself.
Yes, well know how to accept others
if you don't accept yourself,
we are the song that we're coming out with.
Call free that we're so excited about
that because that is the absolute freedom
you have in the arms of love that sums it up.
First,
have to look itself,
but there are no limitations.
There are no limitations,
so that is what free is about.
We want
to hear the music we want
to see what's going on.
How do we follow you and keep
up? You can follow us on a sister
sledge.com and then we have all
the social media outlets where
there there Sister Sledge official.
At Sister Sledge efficio.
Land at Sister Sledge.
4 for Instagram and Twitter so
you'll find us all over the place.
Marvelous find us and the song
will be released on February 18th.
OK, February 18th and then where
do we find it when it's released?
It'll come out on all the outlets you'll
be able to get it on Spotify and all
the all the different distribution.
Again, thank you so much.
Greatly appreciate it and greatly
appreciated everything you've done
over the past 50 years and to
come thank you. I'm very blessed.
I feel very blessed to be in such a family.