Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 372 – June 20, 2018

PHOTO BY THE BOUDOIR DIVAS SAN DIEGO , CA
SCENES FROM “GALE AND THE STORM”
WITH ACTRESS KARYN WHITE &
DIRECTOR / ACTOR DERRICK MUHAMMAD
PHOTOS BY GALE AND THE STORM
The movie was shot in Sacramento, it’s
an ultra low budget film, we used two
award winning student film makers from
Morehouse College in Atlanta. The
production of the movie is pretty raw and
edgy, I co-wrote, executive produced,
and was the music supervisor, and I used
a few other artist on the cd as well as
Including Jay King, Founder and member
of Club Nouveau. Before “Gale and The
Storm,” I had been acting before that. I
was on a sitcom on BET network called
“Beauty and the Baller.” So I got the
acting bug and decided that instead of
me waiting for somebody to give me the
perfect role, that I would create it. That’s
the “Superwoman” in Gale Storm!
Even before you said it was based on
your life, I was going to say that it
sounded like a real-life story.
Oh yeah, exactly. It’s definitely based on
my life, because when I stepped away,
I’m kicking myself in the butt. Who would
let me do that? I was going through a
really dark period for me. I had just lost
my mother, I had just lost my relationship
with the love of my life, Terry Lewis. …
Since I was a kid I was very driven. They
called me Karyn White in elementary
school. I knew I was going to be
a star, and I knew I had that drive
and dedication to what I was going
to be. My work ethic was amazing.
Now that I look back on my life, I
think that I definitely went through
a depression. The fact that I would
even stop singing—now that I’m
seeing how hard it is getting back,
why did I quit? I ask myself, why did
you walk away? I never really said,
“Oh, I’m going to quit music.” Time
kind of happened, and then more
time happened, and I felt like music
had moved on. I kind of felt I lost
confidence in myself.