H.E.R.

Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Franklin is joined by musical legend-in-the-making H.E.R. for a conversation about the vulnerability of putting honest art out into the world, staying true to yourself while having gratitude, and why she originally hid her identity. Kirk gets H.E.R. to talk musical influences, growing up with parents who supported her creative expression, and developing as an artist, all the way to the night she won two Grammys. Find out how H.E.R would grade the current state of music, what it’s like writing music during these turbulent times, and if she feels a responsibility to create music that uplifts. Kirk also presents H.E.R. with a little surprise… All on this episode of Good Words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But I do have to ask you about this dog-on voice you have. Let me tell something.
0:05.0	Your voice is a combination of warm butter.
0:08.0	Oh, thank you.
0:10.0	It is an H-P-no.
0:12.0	It's got a little cognac in it. It's got some 1960 civil rights in it.
0:17.6	And then it's got some early 70s soul pain anguish in it.
0:25.0	Wow, that is the best compliment I have ever received on my voice.
0:29.2	That is the best.
0:30.2	Did you hear me, ladies, y'all, she is compliment me!
0:33.2	And she's telling me I'm getting it.
0:34.8	I told you I'm a fan.
0:36.4	I told you.
0:37.4	Wow, thank you.
0:38.4	Thank you.
0:39.4	I'm telling you, you are what the doctor ordered.
0:43.8	Brothers and sisters my name is Kirk Franklin and I come to give you good words.
0:58.0	Let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, today we're talking to a powerful voice on the music scene.
1:11.8	She's a multi-instrumentist, a bona fide song writing child
1:15.4	prodigy. She was signed to RCA records at just 14 years old. She won two
1:21.1	grammies for her first full-length album and y'all it wasn't even an album
1:26.2	But this conversation is about more than that y'all. It's about what support can look like.
1:30.8	Yeah, what cultivation can look like, what cultivation can look like, and what maintaining one spirit can look like.
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