You in the holiday spirit right here so
your Turkey may not be defrosted yet,
but denied at the Magnolia.
The holidays are here and they're kicking
off the season with Cirque Musica,
it's a holiday spectacular and
country singer and songwriter
Kelly to his woman will be there.
She's also joining us live this morning.
Good morning to you Kelly.
Good morning, yeah,
we're so excited that you'll
be here tonight Cirque Musica.
So what can we expect?
Are you going to be performing
on stage with these performers?
Yes, I'll be opening the show at
6:30 and their set starts at 7,
so I'll be just playing some of my
music and then they'll go on with all
their fun activities and holiday. OK,
so they didn't convince you to do any
of their, you know, Cirque moves,
no, you watch them rehearsing,
and it looks very hard to decide.
Just let them do it, let
them do their thing because your music
is what we all want to see and hear.
Your voice is so lovely.
I was listening to all your clips.
This morning and you really have a
lot of skill and what's cool is that
you grew up in Central California,
which I think that's awesome to
have a Californian doing so well,
tell us a little bit about your background,
Cali. How did you get into music?
Yeah, well, I grew up on
a training cattle ranch.
As you said on the Central
Coast of California.
So I'm a country girl and my mom
was a singer when I was growing up.
So she was part of the inspiration
behind wanting to be a singer myself.
But I always knew that singing was
what I wanted to do since I was
little and I started songwriting.
Yet like 15 years old and just kept
at it and always knew that's what
I wanted and didn't have a Plan B
Kelly, you know what's awesome is,
you know I've lived in
Texas for about eight years.
So country music is life.
There were used to hearing people
growing up on cattle ranches there,
but in California, not as often.
So I think that's super unique.
Did you get a lot of support in the
country world growing up in this state,
or was it really hard to get into it?
Uhm, I've always gotten a lot of support,
but I have heard that a lot that
most people don't think of the
country when I think California.
Thank you to City and all that,
but there's lots of country
in California. I
love that, and so you never look back.
You knew this was your calling.
Yes, and we're glad that that is the case.
'cause you have a special gift
that people need to hear about
and they'll get to hear you today
in El Cahone was just so cool.
We're excited for the holiday season.
Do you feel the same way Cali?
Yes, that's one of my favorite times of year.
So Thanksgiving and Christmas
and just a holiday kind of girl.
Yeah, are you gonna be singing
kind of Christmas tunes?
Do you have a favorite Christmas song?
Yes, in December I'll start
throwing in a Christmas song
in my setlists and it's Santa
baby fasting Christmas song.
That'll be friend
and one of your famous songs right now,
cowboy, and I love the video for that.
What inspired you to write that one?
And seeing that one?
Well, Cowboy was originally inspired
by my dad watching him as a cowboy
growing up and all the Cowboys I grew
up around and just that lifestyle.
But when I took it into the studio,
me and my producer decided we
wanted to throw in a little love
interest in there and spice it up
so it is one of my favorite songs.
Though off of my EP because
it's so close to home and just
the lifestyle I grew up in.
And I bet your dad is super proud
to have a song inspired by him.
That's awesome. Yeah yeah, I bet so.
You'll be here tonight 6:00 o'clock.
You can get tickets Magnolia
sandiego.com and for our viewers
this morning we get that they
get to hear a little sneak peek.
Cali do you mind playing as a
song and we'll have you play
us out to commercial break.
Sure alright yeah part of my single cowboy.
OK, wonderful take it away Kelly.
Got it all figured out.
Everything you want.
Gonna get it somehow, no boy.
Kelly lives on in the family land.
Can you see?
Fantastic.
Yep.
He's a one shot with him, yeah?
He's a cow.
Stephanie is going ahead.
You can bet he's gonna trip.
Yeah, 'cause it's just that.