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Terri Walker chats to I Like Music

ILM: And then also you can be natural.

TERRI: Yeah.

ILM: In terms of life skills and staying on the straight and narrow, what's your advice to kids?

TERRI: Now it's very easy to go off the rails and do the whole Bling Bling thing. It's a mindset thing really, for instance, me and you might go out and look at something and think, that doesn't excite me at all. But other people get caught up on how much money someone has. And the problem is if they're going to get into trouble, they're going to do it anyway. But if you want to make something of yourself and you look at the benefits in the long run, then hopefully the fact that you didn't get yourself into these stupid situations, you'll know that it was really worth it.

ILM: You've been touring. What's your favourite Terri Walker track to play live?

TERRI: There's this one track that we do on my second album called Ain't No Live its kind of a Motown feel. It's the one track that's got a sample in it, it's an old school Al Green sample and we turn it into this big medley of Motown songs, with a bit of Stevie in it, and when I sing that song I kind of go outside of myself and I really go for it, and the reaction… everybody gets really excited because there's so much energy everyone feels like that they have to scream and dance, so that's my favourite one that I like to sing.

ILM: It notices when you're having so much fun so the energy goes out into the crowd and you connect.

TERRI: Yeah! D'ya know what I mean? That's why some people are great performers and some people aren't, because, you could have a great song but if someone sings it like a limp potato, you're like, 'how boring?' You need a bit of energy that makes you go, 'Oh my God!'

ILM: What's your favourite 'live' experience seeing other play recently?

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Related links:

1. Hugo Urban Rules
2. Terri Walker Biography
3. Terri Walker - Whoopsie Daisy