Patrick and the People - 12/7/24 Patrick's After School Special w/ Tricia Danieli

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Patrick's After School Special with Tricia Danieli #patrickandthepeople #triciadanieli #angrypatrick #interview #singer

All right. Welcome to our after school special. I am here with Tricia Daniele. I've been waiting all day for this interview. Super excited about it. And you know what I love about you and it is a quality not many have. You seem to be absolutely fearless. Yeah, I don't think I'm really afraid of anything, which is scary in itself. No, it's funny. I was just looking at, you know, all the work that you do. I mean, you obviously are a Kamala Harris impersonator. You did that for us. But you're also a very talented musical artist, a vocalist, right? That's right.

I'm a singer, musician, songwriter, kind of do it all. Right, right. So where would someone find your music, first of all? I have some things on Apple Music, or formerly known as iTunes, and Spotify. Okay. And I put things up on SoundCloud from time to time. So I'm always like trying to release a new single every month or so. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how did you get into doing musical impersonations and that type of thing? Um, it's really interesting. Like, a lot of people kept telling me that I kind of look and sound like Amy Winehouse. Oh, yeah.

So, yeah, like, I mean, obviously. I guess if I squinted my eyes, maybe I could see that, you know. I think it's when I was covering her songs mostly. So I realized I really, really like her music and then i got into her yeah oh man and her life and you can impersonate her vocally i'm singing wise i'll do like a full show um as amy yeah that's impressive i mean that's real vocal chops. That is not an easy feat to pull off, Tricia. She had a unique range, and I think that that's like my comfort zone. That's your tessitura? Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. My brother, he was out in New York for five years. He's a vocalist, and he's more of a, I would call him a disney style singer i don't know how to better phrase it than that uh i think that's what he grew up on and that that's what he fell in love with you know but what what did you fall in love with uh musically that made you pursue it um when i was like really starting to sing because i actually started with piano so I started as a kid and I started singing after I was a few years into the piano and I was really influenced by Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys. Great artist. Yeah. Okay okay now so you're an impersonator you're actually a vocalist and a musician.

You play instruments, piano for sure. Right. Yeah. You're an actress. Is that right? That's correct. Yeah. Now what have you done in that field? What, what, what, what, what do you do in acting? Actually, like I've done some uh i have like one movie so far um that's great it just it feels really natural and i've done little shorts and stuff um lots of different categories and it just it feels like really natural. Do you find yourself to lean more to the drama side, more of the comedy side?

How do you feel you are as an actress? I definitely feel like more into comedy. Yeah, I could, I could see that. I mean, you see, you already have a kind of a comedic approach and things like that. So, you know, you've blown up obviously all over the internet. People are seeing your work everywhere. They're, you know, you've blown up, obviously, all over the internet. People are seeing your work everywhere. They're, you know, they're sharing it. How have things changed in the past, you know, few years since you've gotten onto Instagram and other social media?

It's really funny because when I started social media, it was actually the days of MySpace and all that. And no way. Come on. Really? I was like one of the like MySpace people, Facebook. Me too. You know, I had MySpace and it was wonderful. I mean, you know, it was just terrible because it takes forever to load. But, you know, you'd spend hours making your page, put music on it, you know, doing all kinds of things. It was really more social media than social media is now. Yeah. That's where I found out that I could be like, I was too short for runway modeling because I love fashion. I always wanted to get into fashion.

But that's when I realized I could be a bikini model. Okay. That's where that all kind of took off. Yeah. So you started modeling and you obviously got noticed and you ended up, if I'm not mistaken, you did a photo shoot with Playboy. Is that correct? Yeah.

Yeah. Again, you know, I go back to where I started. You're fearless. You know, you seem to have a fearlessness about you. And that's an adm you seem to have a fearlessness about you and i man that's that's an admirable quality to have not many people possess that ability because you know it enables you to be completely vulnerable you know uh at any time whether it's to be funny or whatever it may be how was uh you know i'm i'm sure a billion women want to know

what what was it like to do a photo shoot like that? Was it fun? Was it not fun? Was it awkward? Was it great? I mean, for me, it was completely freeing and it was fun. And it just felt like, wow, all these worlds are opening. Yeah.

No, absolutely. No, it's a great honor, you know, and a great stepping stone as well. You know, I'm certain that that probably opened some other doors to you. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So, so, you know, you get noticed out there, you know, doing your modeling and you start, you know, showing your musical chops too. And, and. And so where are you going now? What's next for Trisha Daniele? What are you going to conquer? And what am I missing?

There's more that you've conquered. I don't know. Let's see what else. I mean, I'm getting more into like, musically, I'm getting more into just being more well-rounded. So my goal would be to have my home studio and produce, um,

better, you know, I do it, but like, I want to, you want to do real music production. Yeah. Yeah.

Really good. Put the beats in and, and, and really do it from the base and up. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, and so I'm getting more like well-rounded like playing the drums i started playing the drums a few years ago more um man i wish i could i you know what uh when i was uh in junior high i tried out that's what i wanted to be as a drummer and they told me i didn't have enough rhythm which was just terrible you know it didn't i think it just uh gave me a complex my whole life, but, uh, but I ended up playing trumpet that did not do a lot for me unless you count being able to move your, well, it doesn't even matter, but anyway, uh, no, it didn't do much for me. You know, I think if you wanted to do something, it's, that's enough of a calling.

I think, you know, no one should have told you that. Like, I think, you know, of a calling. I think, you know, no one should have told you that. Like, I think, you know. Well, I did all right. I mean, I survived without the drums, you know, and probably better for the world. You know, I found my voice instead and put that to work. You know, as I grew up, I wanted to be a radio guy and I didn't have a background of any kind in radio. So I had to devise some kind of evil plan to get there. And so I worked for many years to get there and finally did. And, you know, became affiliated with a radio program for 20 years here. And it was a great run. And I've been very blessed.

So I'm not mad at all about the drumming. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Another door opened up for me and I went through it, you know. So where are you going to go next career-wise? Are you looking to break more into music and get more of your singles out there? Are you looking more to get into the acting realm?

Or are you going to the next level of modeling? What's happening? Definitely music is always going to be the base of everything that i do um that's just kind of how i express myself so it's funny because my older brother actually both of my brothers uh played drums and my older brother was really really good so like your younger your other brother's gonna be like man come on be like what are you doing to me here I know he's not gonna even pay attention okay okay it's so funny um brothers are funny but um it's it's funny because my older brother didn't pursue

it professionally and um so I was just like, well, somebody's got to do it. You know what I mean? Someone has to represent the family musically here. And that ended up being Tricia. Okay. Okay. So, you know, when you began to, you know, train, you know, get your voice to what it is now. Is that something that you just did naturally?

Is it something that happened in the shower? Did you practice it? Did you go to lessons? How did you get your voice as dynamic and to have the range that you do like it is now? It's so weird. When I was like five years old or something, I remember going to my mom and telling her that I was going to be a singer and I was going to have this great voice and everything. I'm five.

I don't know. There's nothing there yet. And so I started just kind of singing in private, you know, secretly. And then like I just told her, though, I, I knew that I was going to just develop and listen to really good singers and just kind of develop the ear for it. Piano definitely helped. I bet it did. Yeah. See, I told my mom I wanted to be Indiana Jones. That also did not work out. You know, it's funny. My younger brother's actually very talented at comedy and impressions. Yeah.

And again, he didn't go that route professionally. And I kind of thought he would have. So again, I'm like, somebody's got to do that too. Well, you're trying to carry the mantle for everyone here, aren't you? So now that you've you know gotten some uh success and and some traction and some notice here have you tried to pull any either of your brothers in and go look bring your talent over here and let's get it on video and let's get you in here too you know do a little family thing that was always the dream like i always

wanted that but we never really collaborated ever like we did different genres entirely genres and they just they're way more private than me like completely different personalities and you know it's not for everybody it's like you know it is the most naked well comedy is is is the most naked art form next to whatever, you know, happens at Playboy. But it is, you know, especially when you're doing things like that or vocal work. Yeah, you put yourself way out there in front. And obviously, we're somewhat of attention whores, you know. Yeah.

I mean, you can't deny it. I mean, you know, people say you kind of want attention yeah I mean clearly I must look what I do yeah you know so that's a given so when you you know began to listen to music when you were little who did you like I was all over the place I mean, I liked Roberta Flack and Patsy Cline and Yanni. Oh, I'm a huge Yanni fan. Yeah? The Yanni, the master of the pan flute? Yeah.

You know, the two keyboards, the long hair. Yes, I remember him. He was actually really big, like maybe in the 80s? 70s, 80s? I think 90s is kind of when. Was he in the 90s? think 90s was he in the 90s he might have been yeah yeah he might have been okay I believe that yeah that's interesting though that's an interesting one uh so you know when you first started singing did you how long did it take you to figure out oh you you know the Amy Winehouse connection how did that how long did that take um I think when I just

realized like that her range and her style really fit it felt natural you know that's when I was like it would be really really cool to just you know I think a lot of people told me, oh, you kind of look like her. So I ended up getting the beehive wig. Oh yeah. That is great. That's great. Do you still, you know, do shows like that as Amy? Yes. All the time. All the time even. Yeah. There's about a couple times a month I do a themed or tribute show. So even last night I did like an Alicia Keys theme. I do Lady Gaga. I'm just kind of exploring different themes. Okay.

So tell me how, you know, if I buy a ticket to your show, right, am I coming to see Trisha Daniele and Trisha does all kinds of stuff, including that, or am I coming to see tricia daniele and tricia does all kinds of stuff including that or am i coming to see lady gaga uh it depends on how it's kind of marketed so like i put on the flyers you know what it's going to be right i think i like performing as myself the most because it's like a variety okay yeah no I I didn't know if you stayed if you got in character and you just stayed that way you know an Elvis impersonator if you meet there it's always Elvis you know they're never not Elvis and so I wasn't sure if you're like now I stay in character if you meet

me I'm Alicia Keys on that night you know you can meet Trisha later you know yeah I like to be and like I like to be me as an artist. Yeah. And just kind of like paying tribute to some of my favorite artists. And it gives you a little more leeway to, to freestyle and do other things as well, I assume. Yeah. Okay. All right.

So when you, you know, if I come to your show, am I going to see, if you do a tribute to, let's say Alicia Keys, but you'll do other music as well of your own, I guess. Yeah, I'll just, like last night, I just, I kind of stayed in that genre and did songs that I really like or that, like, always resonated with me. That's great. And so when is your next performance and where is it at, by the way? Tomorrow night, I'm playing at a blues club in Fort Lauderdale. In Fort Lauderdale. That's where you, do you live in Fort Lauderdale area? Yeah.

Oh my goodness. That's a beautiful area. Now, I know that there's been obviously a lot of really tough weather in Florida, but have you escaped most of that so far? Yeah, I'm lucky. You know, I've been in Florida for almost seven years now and I haven't gotten hit with anything major. Wow. Yeah, because I mean, boy, no, but a lot of people in Florida cannot say that, particularly now, you know. Florida cannot say that, particularly now, you know. Yeah.

How far from you, you know, when you go around, do you see where areas are affected or are you too far removed from it? I'm pretty far from it, actually. Yeah, see, Florida, a lot of people may not know, Florida's a very long state. And you can be, you know, very far from one another there. Yeah. I stay on the coast, pretty far from one another there. Yeah. I stay on the coast pretty much, the East Coast. Okay. Now, where were you born? I was born outside Chicago in a South suburb called Joliet.

Oh, I've heard of Joliet. Yeah. Now, did you live there very long or? Yeah, I mean, I left when I was 18. Oh, okay. So you went to school there and everything. Yeah. What was that like growing up there?

How does it compare, for example, to where you are now? It's, I think it gave me a lot of character. It's a very unique town. Yeah. You know, the movie, The Blues Brothers. That's kind of my favorite. It's a very unique town. Yeah. You know, the movie The Blues Brothers, that's kind of one of my favorite movies. It's a great movie. Isn't it great?

Yes. It's a very musical area. It's a tough, you know, the weather is extremely tough. Yeah. The winters are pretty hard there, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah. So you get, I mean, where I'm at, i live in little rock and now you live in florida uh but but where i'm at uh if it snows people don't want to drive if

they they'll they'll get out they'll not get out if they don't have to i assume where you are when it snows it's like so what yeah definitely i mean, Chicago area is like severely cold. Just, I couldn't really handle it to be honest with you. Like, I don't think I was made for it. I'm definitely not made for that. Yeah, I was constantly sick. I was constantly getting pneumonia and like. Now are you a sports fan?

I'm loyal to all my Chicago teams. So, the Bulls? Bulls. Like Michael Jordan? Of course. I knew all the team players when they were having their... Oh, of course. Then the 90s.

Yeah. Yeah. Man, that must have been so awesome to be there in the 90s when, you know, he was in his prime. And, man, everybody was going crazy about it. How exciting was that to be there in the 90s when you know he was in his prime and man everybody was going crazy about it how exciting was that to live there I mean I was I was a little kid but like um my family was really into basketball like we had a basketball court and everyone would come and play and like it was just so cool because I knew, you know, I like studied the players and stuff. I was a nerd. I was a real nerd. Yeah, that's cool. Actually, that gets cool points these days. You know, it used to be a bad thing. It's not anymore. You know, it makes you actually interesting to

people. What kind of nerd were you? Have you noticed that there's less nerds today? I was, I was just thinking about this. I think there's less nerds today. Well you know in fairness nerds didn't have the internet back then so they didn't know they were nerds. You know now you know you're a nerd before you ever leave the house. You can look at yourself and go I look like that kid. I don't want to look like that you know. I was the interesting nerd because I was like I was really shy really I was so quiet people thought I was like, I was really shy, really. I was so quiet. People thought I was stuck up and, um, I would read books all the time. I would practice music for hours and hours a day. Um, well, how did you get out of shyness? What, what, what happened? Were you like a caterpillar turned into a butterfly or how did that work?

Yeah, it became some kind of really weird butterfly. Like all of a sudden, like, I think, I think it was like around 18 or something. And I just broke out of my shell, like with a hammer. With a vengeance. Yeah. Okay. All right. So what is, you know, what's the long term? What do you hope to do? You know, where do you see yourself, you know, in the next five, 10 years? What are you going to be doing? Five, 10 years. Well, I think like.

I think my next direction, I'm keeping comedy in my mind because even with music, I never I don't feel comfortable as like a really serious person. So, you know, I kind of just feel like I can be more honest with comedy. So I started writing some really funny songs and I kind of want to play more characters and impressions. And I started, yeah, I started to write like one day, even if it's 20 years from now, I want to do standup. So I'm like writing every night. I'm like writing jokes. I'm like for every hundred jokes, one of them is good you know right no i i know how that works i i did stand up for i've done it i guess for 15 16 years now and uh it it's challenging but you know when you have um a piano uh you don't actually have to stand up

you can sit down and do a show that way and And I've, I've known some very, very, very, very good comics that do so, um, that do musically. Yes. And, uh, they are amazing. Now I know a couple that do it with guitar, uh, and, and I know a couple that do it with piano and they're all great. Yeah. Now it is a little bit more of a logistical thing to get a piano where you need, you know? Yeah. It's trickier than a guitar for sure. It's a pain in the butt. Yeah. It really is. Yeah. Do you, you know, for entertainment these days, nobody's really, I don't think watching

TV the way they used to. What do you stream? Do you watch TikToks? Do you, where do you go to be entertained? dogs do you where do you go to be entertained uh it's mostly youtube and like i guess instagram facebook um do you do you follow personalities on youtube or do you just randomly watch stuff how do you what you know what are you watching i guess okay so youtube is i'll just put on like these long kind of like interesting documentaries or whatever. Okay.

Like, when I want to, like, zone out. Okay. But when I'm scrolling on, like, social media, I follow comedians. I follow, like, artists that I really like. Mm-hmm. Whatever I'm trying to learn or get better at. Okay, okay. Who are you trying to learn now?

What's the new artist you're trying to take on? New artist? I mean, it's hard. I mean, it's hard to say like specifically. Okay, I got you. Yeah, I think I'm just trying to, I'm still just trying to like figure out like what's going to be me and what's different about me. Well, I don't know how it translates musically.

But as a standup comedian, they told me early on, it takes about five years to find your voice. And that held pretty, pretty close to true. Now, I do think as you get older, that voice changes. But I think from the time you start really going into comedy, it takes about five years, you know, and then, you know, this is who I am, you know. So it's good to be where you are. It sounds like you're in that early exploratory. Let me figure out comedically who I am so I can then, you know, expand it from there. But, you know, you, the, the, the tough thing for you is you have a hell of a lot more options than we do. You know, I, I can only get up and tell a joke or,

you know, I can move my face contorted, maybe my body a little bit, but you have a whole, maybe my body a little bit, but you have a whole, you know, music thing behind you that offers so many other avenues to pursue comedically, you know, and, and that's a, that, that takes a little bit to explore, I'm sure. Right. Like I pretty much, I know who I am as musically, you know, like what my vein is, what my is whatever yeah and um but yeah trying like trying to add comedy to it now it's it's really interesting like um i never never was bored in my entire life so i just like to just keep evolving and yeah uh you know it's real

common now if you look at a good example of this, and you may not follow him, Garth Brooks. And I'm not like a big giant Garth Brooks fan necessarily. I mean, I do like his music or whatever, but he is really as much almost stand up comedy now as he is for music. I love that right and if you watch his set you know he'll have one of those uh headsets with the little you know thing that stick out and he'll stop playing and he'll just start telling you a funny story and he's telling it very stand-up comedian style uh it's just stand-up honestly it is and i'm seeing more and more artists who are kind of employing that technique of I'm going to use my music and my mouthpiece to entertain because I'm more than just music, you know? And I think when you find that rhythm between the two,

I think you could have something really powerful there because what I have noticed as well, and not just that you're fearless but that your uh followers are are very uh fiercely supportive of you you know you have a great following and they're fiercely supportive it looks like of any endeavor that you pursue that you pursue? Yeah, there's a lot of really, really amazing people in my life. And I've seen the strength of that, like, big time, you know, it's, it's pretty awesome. But at the same time, though, like, I feel like I'm also kind of controversial, because I'm very judged. And like, I hate this word, but there's a lot of haters. Well, there's always going to be haters.

Why do you have haters, Tricia? Who hates you and why do they hate you? Tell me why they hate you. It's so funny. I don't always know why they hate me, but there's a lot of people who instantly, like, they're kind of like what is she and then they're looking for

something immediately to hate like they're looking for oh she's left handed I knew I hated her now are you talking about on social media or are you talking about in person that was just an example right no I know that was just an example. Right. No,

I know that. I think, um, I think it's kind of both. Yeah. You don't seem that polarizing to me. That's, you know, I've kind of think, I kind of think I am. And that's what makes me feel like I'm going to probably go somewhere because if you think about it, people, that's true. probably go somewhere because if you think about it, people, that's true. It's true. No, no, you know, we were just talking about this yesterday in standup comedy particularly, but in radio it translates as well. If you're not offending people, you're not doing the job. You can't make everybody happy and be the best you're being, you know,

and, and that comes comes with that comes with haters you know uh ask tom brady comes with a lot of haters you know michael jordan he came with a lot of haters you know about six rings or five rings four rings in they were like uh we hate you now mike we get out you're winning too much, you know? But it is. Yeah, they turn on you. They're your fans. They admire you, and then they turn on you. You know, you just have to roll through it because those aren't the real fans.

You know, the real fans are there with you. Those are the fair weathers that need to go on and pull their own happy wagon. You know what I mean? I just take it like, okay, if they're that passionately moved by me, then I must be onto something, just being myself and trying to do the best at what I'm doing, you know? Well, yeah, I would imagine so. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, social media, unfortunately, is a blessing and a curse for everybody, right? I mean, it can validate you and destroy you in a matter of 30 seconds. Right. And it's just, how much do you want to ride the roller coaster? You know?

And so I, I try my best to avoid that. I, you know, because I've, I've seen, I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows, you know, and I, what I do is I I just communicate with the people who are supporting me and give them love and give them thanks and tell them how much and the other ones I just let them suffocate there with no water right no water for the haters for me man well uh tell people you're on instagram trisha daniele it's D-A-N-I-E-L-I, correct? That's right.

All right. And do you have a website also? Or is that where everybody goes to see you? TheTriciaShow.com. TheTriciaShow.com. I did not know that. I'm going to add that now. And we'll have to put a link up to that on our page for you, too, so that we send you some folks over there.

Because I know all of my folks will want to see that. Check out the Trisha show.com and see what's happening in Trisha's world. And I certainly hope that, you know, you're going to come back in some variation or another as yourself, as a musical guest, as both. We just want to keep up with you and hope that you'll keep coming to see us. Cool.

I appreciate that. No, it's awesome. It's awesome. It's Tricia Danielli. Everybody get you some of it at the trishashow.com. Thank you. Thank you, Tricia. All right.