That leads from the museum to the practitioner. And I say this also, so you would have “meat” because you're young. You can take this to a whole new level. And I've taken things to a whole new level, which I feel proud that I've changed America and the world when it comes to the Kumbaya.
You punch my name in, and you punch in Kumbaya you're going to see the Library of Congress had the wrong narrative. The State of Georgia and other states had the wrong narrative, the Congress itself had it all wrong.
I put 10 years of my life to right a wrong, not because I said so, but because I found out some deep nuggets. I always used this saying about “Elvis is alive, and of course Loch Ness monster, and Bigfoot is alive.”
No one can prove it, but it still makes a lot of money in the world for a lot of people—those storytellings. But I knew I had to prove it.
The state of Georgia had its first vote on a resolution to recognize the Kumbaya.
We took that and persuaded the state of Georgia that recognition needed to be given to the Gullah Geechee for the first known recording in the world. A billion people know it all over the world, but they don't know where it came from.
Fast forward, we took that knowledge to convince Georgia to have his first historical song. We wanted to be Georgia's sound, but we also knew there was no way Georgia was going to give up “Georgia On My Mind,” that ain't going to happen for nobody.
So, I researched and researched and found out one state had a historical sound. Georgia didn't have one—checkmate. So now, how do I get this to go through?