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To get to where we want to be, we have to<br />
start somewhere. Tell me about some of<br />
your previous jobs.<br />
I came here to New York because I knew I<br />
wanted to be a film maker. I worked at a<br />
Cabaret – you know with lots of singers and<br />
actors and dancers on the professional and<br />
independent level. Even the bartenders sang<br />
as well and they were powerful – they were<br />
trained, and they all went to school for that.<br />
And there I was, an island boy with just my<br />
little accent. I always felt intimidated. But<br />
then one day I opened mouth and began to<br />
sing, one of the bartenders said, “You’ve been<br />
working here this long, you can sing like this<br />
and haven’t shown us this side of you?"<br />
LOL. You were holding out on them,<br />
Demedrius. What happened from there?<br />
They were stunned and impressed. Then I<br />
presented the guy at the bar with my poetry<br />
and gave it to a director friend of mine who<br />
frequented the bar. Then I said, “Can you do<br />
something with this?" And he said, "Of course<br />
Demedrius – it’s simple, it’s clean." And from<br />
that I did “Matters of the Heart” at The<br />
American Theater of Actors in Manhattan.<br />
From that "Le Chateau" was born and a couple<br />
movies and series.<br />
WOW! This is incredible Demedrius. You<br />
mentioned earlier that you mostly sang in the<br />
choir growing up. Well, there goes