Hey folks excited about our conversation with John Cooper the lead singer of the wildly successful rock band

skillet and even if you're not a hard rock fan or you don't know anything about John you're gonna

love this conversation as we dive into the specifics behind chasing a career as a musician when mom

doesn't like the music thinks it's evil and dad thinks it's a loser profession how did he

overcome that to be who he is today that and more coming up right now all right John so I got

to know anytime you talk to a musician which we live in Nashville and some friends with musicians I

show up at like silly Halloween parties for my kids and you sit down and you're talking to dads

and you get five minutes in and you find out that their world class you know writers song writers

I mean this happens in Nashville all the time and so I'm I'm forever fascinated by musicians

primarily because I'm always curious you know when did the love of music present itself do you

remember when do you first get intrigued or when does it become a thing you're like I dig music

I think a lot of people musicians are not it is probably hard for most people to remember when

they first fell in love with music because it's so ubiquitous all right you know you grow up you

hear music if you go to church yeah you hear music a church it you know if you go anywhere you go

to the baseball game yeah blah blah blah blah blah blah you know it's like music is is always it's

always connected to something celebration worship um going to the mall if you you know if you

know if you're an older sibling for me my mom is a piano teacher and a voice teacher and she would

not like the kind of singing I do yeah but uh yeah but my mom was a piano teacher and so I grew up

with ever since I can remember my mom would sing opera the loudest singing you've ever heard

yeah right like way louder than my singing right um she it was like the whole house would shake

when my mom was saying opera um and and I just loved music ever since I was a kid I was fascinated

the first time I heard music that absolutely like like floored me yeah was because my friend down

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