WRCO Live Music Interview with Dionya Marie

Welcome, welcome. We're in the studio with the Anya who is a music artist. We played her song there a few times

And good to have her here to talk about it. How are you doing? Good. How are you doing? Ah, doing real well

Yes, thanks for finding us here in the great Midwest. Oh my goodness

So we tried last night to find you and then we ended up just you know having a margarita

Yeah, I bet that was good after a hot day wasn't it? It was good. It was good after a long drive

So yeah needed a needed something to knock me out

You have crisscrossed this country, have you not? Yes, I have. This is my second music tour and I'm really excited about it

I get to see

New states and new cities and meet amazing new people so very happy. Where were you born and raised?

I was born in California, but raised in New York and then I went back to California

Oregon, Nevada everywhere now. I'm just going back forth to Nashville

Nashville to California. Wait coast to coast and now somewhere in the middle and somewhere in the middle

So you have you always had the love of music always since I was a little girl

One of the songs that we're going to sing live here is I had a I sang with a brush full of hair and in my mind

There was an audience there, so I've always wanted to be a singer

Sing with the gospel of messengers when I was a teenager 13

And did some other gospel music and went into hip-hop rock pop and I always say when you start with gospel you end with country

Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, a lot of people have kind of followed that path

Yes, I think it's good because I wrote a song called hands and it definitely has a lot of the gospel in it

So I really love it. The single that we're going to play here

Is one that you've recorded and I really think it it has almost kind of a bluesy feel to it. It does

I love the Chris Stapleton the El King

I'm into that kind of jazzy, you know, there's some there's some coolness in there and you know like Tennessee whiskey and it makes it timeless

I think a little oldy. Yeah, it sounds old, but it's new. Yeah

This is the timeless ones. I'm sure people have asked you, but what's the inspiration for this current song? Yeah, it's kind of interesting

This is the song I wrote in 20 minutes

20 minutes. I was sitting there and I I call it the Gemini in me

She wanted to write something else and I wrote miss you so bad in my head and I looked down and it was miss you so mad

So it was kind of like oh, this is pretty cool. So I just kept going along with it

I've been widowed since I was 28 and I have a lot of you know friends that are

You know widows and widowers and they everyone keeps telling them move on move forward

Or if you break up with someone or you lose, you know

It's you're not ready and you'll know when you're ready

So just leave me alone and that's why it's like

Cuz I'm not ready. No

Right. Yeah, everybody heals at their own pace. Everyone heals at their own pace. So just just let them have some time

Yeah, awesome. Well, here we go. Dianne on WRC Radio for a Wednesday morning

I miss you so bad

I miss you so bad

It's hard to be happy

When you're all that I

I wake up alone

Trying to pick up the pieces

I miss you so bad

I miss you so bad

They say time will heal this pain

But I'm not ready

To let you go

When you're all that I had

I miss you so bad

The silence is pain

I will see you again

Trying to keep it together

I'm going insane

Can't turn back the time

When we were together

I miss you so bad

I miss you so bad

Time will heal this pain

But I'm not ready

To let you go

When you're all that I had

I miss you so bad

I miss you so bad

They say time will heal this pain

But I'm not ready

To let you go

When you're all that I had

I miss you so bad

They say time will heal this pain

But I'm not ready

To let you go

When you're all that I had

I miss you so bad

Because you're all that I had

I miss you so bad

Deanya and WRCO, Deanya Marie and I miss you so bad

Miss you so bad

Thank you

That's got a lot of bluesy feel and

I like the little emphasis there at the end

I love it

Let me get over it on my own time

Yeah, I'm not ready

You had to live a little bit of life before you wrote a song like that

Oh yeah

I definitely if you listen to my music

I'm going to take a real strong man

Everything that I've been through in life

has just been crazy chaotic

I was in foster care

I do a lot for foster care

And different groups like that

Because I'm really passionate on

Anything that happens to me

I want to heal someone else

And I want to be there

And you've got several I think kind of

Favorite fundraisers don't you?

Oh yes, I actually

We just finished tennis camp

In Burbank for kids with Down syndrome

I participate in that with the entertainment part

And we brought in Victor Orlando of the Gap Band

And with his Kongas

In December I work with kids with all disabilities

And we bring out Santa Claus

And I do a whole show

You did a Christmas song last year didn't you?

I did

It's pretty crazy I was working with Mark Needham

He did a

Dolly Parton's whole album

For the Hall of Fame Rock

Because she said I'm not going to accept an award

Unless I do an album

And he sent the song

I said hey I have a Christmas song

And he said okay sing it in the mic

Just dry no no instruments

And he went to Kent Wells

And Kent Wells who did Dolly Parton's Christmas album

Said I'm gonna I'm gonna produce that

Bring her here bring her to Nashville

So I went to Dolly Studio

And while I was

You know recording it Dolly was on the phone

She's like what's that?

So you met Dolly?

I didn't meet Dolly but she was on the phone

She was on the phone oh I see

Yeah but her band her

Her band is in that song

And her background vocalist Kristina is in that song

What's the studio like?

Every single thing that they have

Instruments that are packed

She's got her signature on it

And there's a photo on my social media

And I'm just like it's Dolly

But her band is amazing

Amazing I mean when you have

These talented people

That have been around music

They just know where to hit the notes

And it's just it was beautiful

So if you go in there you don't actually have sheet music

That they look at then they just write out

How does that work?

Oh they are okay

They're given the song

And I usually say what instruments I want in it

I write the song in my head

Music and everything

I can't just write

I say if I write it words it's a poem

If I sing it I have to sing everything

Like I miss you so bad

You know it has to have the tune with the words

I don't know what it is

That's different

She's doing the music and I'm doing the words

We work together

All of your personalities are working together

I'm never alone

Well you've got Joe here

Yes Joe done here

Yeah

And he might accompany you on a song

If we ask him

Yes that would be amazing

I have a song called a street called Evergreen

And it's where I grew up

And I learned to be me

A tiny little house to sing big then

Lots of fruit trees and a chicken pan

Laptop alone to be wild and free

That's where I had to learn to be me

On a street called Evergreen

How was a shy little girl with a big heart dream

Didn't have much and I didn't care

Writing songs sitting on a front porch chair

The garage I used as my music room

The record player blasting out some country tunes

My microphone was a brush full of hair

But in my mind there was an audience there

On a street called Evergreen

It was a shy little girl with a big heart dream

I didn't have much and I didn't care

Writing songs sitting on a front porch chair

The house is gone but I kept that chair

Now sitting on my porch in the country air

Listening to my song on the radio

About a girl with a dream a long time ago

On a street called Evergreen

How was a shy little girl with a big heart dream

I didn't have much and I didn't care

Writing songs sitting on a front porch chair

On a street called Evergreen

How was a shy little girl with a big heart dream

I didn't have much and I didn't care

Still writing them songs on a front porch chair

It's just so effortless for you

It's you know when you know that it's your life and that's all you've done

I just love it

I love life performing more

It's just so amazing

We just met two days ago

Oh really wow

You've got a good guitar

It is interesting because that song was supposed to be a sad song

All the stuff that happened in the house

Kind of like the forest gump

Where she threw the stones at the house

And I went back to the house and the house was gone

The house is gone

And in my mind it was just like you know what

All the bad is gone

Let's just take from what I got out of it

Being alone as a child

And learning to be myself

And that's what I went to was music

And so my dreams are coming true

And don't give up

Yeah right exactly

You found some happy times through the tough it sounds

I did I did because again it was

We had just a garage to play and it was a tiny little house

You know when you think that these houses are big

And I was like God I used to climb up on this one thing

And you're like how did I get up there

It was so tiny like I must have been really small

You know we think our houses are big

And you go back to your childhood home

And you're just like wow

But it was music

It was the record player it was you know

We were left alone but I was left with music

Do you remember what it was like when you first heard

One of your songs on the radio?

So excited

I you know

I have a lot of friends that were music

The same you know as long as I've been in it

And they gave up on it

And it's just like it's all I know

It's something that I have to do

Even I wrote a song for breast cancer

Stand up and live strong

I've been asked to write a song for kids with

Downs

And it's just it's something that

Even hearing it on the radio

I'm just really hoping it touches people

And that they feel the happiness inside of me

Because it has healed me

Music heals and it's it's amazing

So

Like you're joining us on the RCO radio

Please have in the studio Dianna Marie

And we've been having a lot of fun

A lot of fun

When the mics weren't on

You were demonstrating some of your accents

Do a Brooklyn accent for us

Well well that's the coffee and all that

But my my aunts is from Queens

And she would say there's so many oranges out here

What are you gonna do with all these orange trees

Do you do a California accent then?

Or

Dude

Yeah there you go

Like oh my god

Like a valley girl

That's my friend

And then you've been a Nashville long enough to pick up

Maybe a little bit of

I'll be you know yo

It's just especially traveling with John

John Joe done here

Joe is just like constantly

Shoot man

And then I try and then you know

When coffee or

Yeah

Talk or something

Get in the car

Every once in a while a word pops up

It does one glass of wine I'm done

I'm back in New York

So you're putting together a whole album right now?

Yeah

Yes I am

I'm going back to Nashville

And Johnny Garcia is going to produce

He is the guitar player

For Trisha Earwood and Garth Brooks

And him and I are

I think it's the whole

Latino thing

We're gonna add a little bit of

Spanish in some of this

In one of the songs we're gonna try to do a Spanish song

But yeah

I have some songs that I've done before

I've done probably 10 more songs

He came down twice

And he's putting the music together right now

And I go up there and record them

Very excited

What's been your most successful songs?

I know you've had some

Social media and different ones

Where you've been a hit there too

Are you trying to tell me calm down Karen?

I was going to say calm down Karen

I was reading about that like

I think I heard that before

So can I speak to a manager

And that's only because

She didn't listen the first time to the first calm down Karen

It was a country vibe

And then the other one is more of a rock vibe

So it's you know

She didn't do it again

Karen

So yeah

It had over 80 million

Views on TikTok

And it is just like

People were adding it to their videos

People were going nuts

And it's just something during

COVID that you know

You're sitting at home and you just see all these videos

Karen Karen Karen Karen

I'm like somebody had to do it

And it had to be a girl

You could get away with it

And I have a lot of friends in Karen

So it is Karen approved to just letting you know

I think it's allariable

They told you it was all right

Oh my

So the songs that you've written

You're saying the evergreen song

And I'm guessing in some ways

You know I do have another song that I did

It's a girl with no last name

And it's such

He should pay for all her therapy

So yeah

This is my therapy people have asked me

You know you should go see someone and talk about it

I'm like no

Because you know the hours up

And you're like really getting into

Okay well next week that was great

No

I'm putting that out in my songs

If you don't want to do me wrong

It's cheaper that way

It is cheaper that way

So the song you're going to sing live before you hit the road

Is one that you've experienced then

This will pretty much tell you about

You know kind of someone out

Some of the things I went through as a child

Yeah it's called going to take a real strong man

Wonderful

Thanks for appearing live with us here on this

Thank you so much

You bet

Oh

I grew up watching a man cheat on a woman

Saw some things a child shouldn't see

When I went to bed late my head on my pillow

I prayed the good luck come and rescue me

It's going to take a real strong man

To love me

It's going to take a damn strong man

To care

To hold me through the nightmares of my memories

And show me that there's better man out there

Mama ladden told me he was my real daddy

For many years I thought this to be true

Until another man walked into the picture

He said I'm the only man who fathered you

It's going to take a real strong man

To love me

It's going to take a damn strong man

To care

To hold me through the nightmares of my memories

Show me that there's better man out there

He demand to show me what real love is

To give me the affection that I need

Understanding carrying is what I hope for

A good man to love and cherish me

Is there a good man to love and cherish me

I married the first you said he loved me

Only to relive the stories of my past

Anger and violence were added to that recipe

Ten years of this went on before he passed

It's going to take a real strong man to love me

It's going to take a damn strong man to care

To hold me through the nightmares of my memories

Show me that there's better man out there

Wow

That a hard song to sing

It is a hard song to sing but you know what it's a healing song

And it's letting the people out there know that

Oh man, I always say if you do something to a child

And they grow up to be a songwriter

Watch out

Yes, and that is why I do believe God gifted me to be a singer

Because he said it's okay

One of these days you're going to be able to tell the world that hey guess what

And I've had people come to me and tell me oh my gosh

That is amazing you've healed me

You went through some of the similarities as me and it's a healing song

I think about how your life could have been different

You could have taken another path

That's the whole thing I was in elementary school

I thought my real dad

My mom told me that that was my real father

And then this man when I was 10

Came to pull me out of school he found me

And I went to the front office

And I was like I don't know this guy

And then I went wait a minute

And they said you know he said he's your dad

And I was always wondering where my last name was different

Than my you know than my STEM monsters

My STEM monsters

And it was like my whole mind went to wait a minute

That's my saved me from what I'm going through at home

And then it was just so I didn't the trust

Again it's just the trust

You don't realize what you've done to a child

It's just so much trust issues

But yeah and then I found out about my real dad in that family

And it would have been another disaster

So I'm happy

And again to go through something and to heal other people

Is what my journey is

I was going to say that has to make the whole music thing worthwhile

It is

It's seriously it is

And I look back and I think if I didn't go through this

I wouldn't have all these songs right

Right exactly

I'm here to help you talk about right from experience

Some writers don't

But you're right from things you've learned

I do I write from the heart and it's brutal

But it's the truth and it's my truth

And again it's people that thought they get away with it

They're not

Well if people are enjoying your music

But the best way to contact you get holy

Or maybe listen to some music from you

Yes I'm on every major platform

D-I-O-N-Y-A Marie

And I'm on Spotify

Apple music

Instagram

If you want to laugh really hard

Go on my TikTok it's pretty funny

Especially today we did a TikTok

He was trying to touch their snacks

And I said you're going to get a snack

I just wanted a snack

The snack you brought here

Yeah Joe was trying to get in our snack

It's going to be a TikTok

And then I'm on Twitter

Yeah I have a website

D-I-O-N-Y Marie

So yeah follow me please

It's a pleasure to meet you

Thank you so much

Add me to your playlist

Yeah we will

Thank you