This is New Wisco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale your host, growing up with musical parents,
a father who was a disjockey, and a youth filled with singing and music. All that started
Kaelin Cole on her path to making her living singing and songwriting. She appeared on a recent
episode of Civic Media's Mino in the Mayor's Show. Here's John Mino, Jim Schmidt, and Kaelin Cole.
I'm glad to be back. This is my first time with you all though. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
How did you get into music and how did you get here? I mean, go ahead. Yeah, I'm a very
extroverted person. I feel like majority of the music industry is. I was in choir. I was in
theater when I was a child. I have a lot of my choir teachers to thank just for believing in me
so when I was younger, my dad has a brother and he was a musician in his college age early 20s.
And so I thought he was, you know, everything. So he is my main influence. And that's where you
get to Spartan? Yeah. And so my dad was also a DJ too. And so he had... Really? Yeah.
It was a station near, I believe, LaCrosse. He would bring in a new CD almost every week and it was
either like Sean Paul, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley. So I had grow up on those kinds of songs.
Further on, I started doing karaoke competitions and that's when my parents were like,
are we biased or is she actually like, does she have something? And I was, you know, taking second
first or third place in karaoke competitions and I was the youngest and the second youngest was
mid-30s. I was 11. Wow. Yeah. This one talent competition was in Black River Falls and on the panel
of the judges was somebody from Nashville. And I was 15 and he came up to me and he was like,
have you ever heard of Nashville, Tennessee? And this was 2016. I was like, now? Where's that?
And so that summer, my parents and I took a trip down and I fell in love. I just didn't take
the college route because college will always be there. Opportunities will not always be there.
So I'd much rather use that to my advantage.
Can I have a call? Bring it on, young lady.
Sounds good. This song is going to be out in the fall. I'm currently in the studio right now.
This one's called Gunner. I wrote this with Marla Cannon Goodman and Lexi Liu.
I guarantee she's got a suitcase.
Tucked up underneath her bed frame. One looking side would be a dead giveaway because she's always
ready to on ready to jump ready for the giveaway.
She's gonna take what you want her. She's got a silver tongue on her whispered in the ear and
told you what you want to hear. You're just upon in her game.
Oh, because she's on the whole night of the level. You dance and brown with the devil.
They leave her alone her. Nobody gonna honor she ain't a hangar on her.
Now that girl's a goner. Long, long, goner. Long, long, long, long, goner.
Long, long, long, long, goner.
I guarantee she's got a full tank.
No weird view to look back on because she ain't the needle buried in the dash.
She's like a heart, just like a pass. She's hitting the gas and not fast.
It's all but just like that.
Oh, because she's the one take what you want her.
She's got a silver tongue on her whispered in the ear and told you what you want to hear.
You're just upon in her game.
Because she's on the whole night of the level.
You dance and brown with the devil.
They leave her alone her.
Nobody gonna honor she ain't a hangar on her.
Now that girl's a goner.
Yeah, that girl's a goner. Long, long, goner.
She's a true liar. Can't ride her wrong or a good buy.
She's so longer. Nobody knows. Nobody knows what holds her.
She's a take what you want her.
She's got a silver tongue on her whispered in the ear and told you what you want to hear.
You're just upon in her game.
Because she's on the whole night of the level.
You dance and brown with the devil.
They leave her alone her.
Nobody gonna honor she ain't a hangar on her.
Now that girl's a goner.
That girl's a goner.
Long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long,ouv Québec,
you're just telling us during the break.
What a tough business, huh?
It's a business, it's a business, you know?
It's so much more than the music, you know?
It really is.
So, and that's kind of life and you're learning that, you know, it is, you don't have an agent,
you don't, you're not part of a band that has a business manager.
No, I actually, so I do a variety of acts.
I mainly do solo because it's easy, logistically to go and travel and also stay.
And it's a lot cheaper and financially a better option to do solo stuff.
But I love bringing my friends on the road.
I actually had Lexi Lou here last time with me at the station.
Hopefully find your music.
You can find it anywhere.
You can ask Alexa to play it.
Sometimes if she's in the right mood, she'll play it for you.
What's it like to busk?
Busking, that's so funny because somebody told me that I should do that.
What's busking?
Busking is basically standing on the side of the sidewalk,
just with opening your guitar case for tips and just kind of singing to the people that'll listen.
Do you ever do that?
I actually have never done that and that's kind of on my bugger list.
Kalen Cole, K-O-L-E, look her up ladies and gentlemen.
Please.
Do your thing.
Sounds good.
You thinkin' a laugh of the party got a cup of a party.
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