Getting Close UP!

Getting Close UP! S2E4 featuring Madness & Melody

Season 2 Episode 4 brings to you a dynamic musical duo; Melinda Edlin and Oliver Hughes make up the group Madness & Melody.
Accomplished singers and songwriter in their own right, found themselves on a colliding path of devastation and unfortunate that brought then together to combine their talents and tales that create a unique melody all their own!
Join Danielle as she gets into what makes them a great collaboration.

Getting Close UP! S2E3 featuring Alan Kneeland

Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 3 welcomes Alan Kneeland; owner of The Combine at 2999 Troost Ave, Kansas City Mo, and the first African American President of The Greater Restaurant Association.
Danielle and Alan have an in-depth conversation about having passion that intertwines with a dream that results in establishing. your own business that feeds the most hungry connoisseur of pizza to also investing in the local independent artist and creative community.
Check out this episode and make sure you visit The Combine and get some of the best pizza in KC; oh and don't forget to try out their wings!!!! So amazing.
Open mic is every Thursday from 6 - 9pm. Please support your local artist community,

Getting Close UP! S2E2 featuring Tyjuania Gatson

Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 2 welcomes Tyjuania Gatson; owner of Minor Solutions.
Danielle and Tyjuania get extremely personal discussing the evolution of a dream. Lemons into lemonade would be a good title for this segment as Tyjuania reveals how past abuse inspired her collection of "Faces Like Me". Just in time for Christmas, once you hear her story, you will want to patronize this effort to instill the esteem so often lacking .

Getting Close UP! S2E1 featuring Antonio J

Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 1 welcomes Antonio J; rapper, songwriter and producer.
Join Danielle as she gets up close and personal with Antonio J; digging deep into motivations, oppositions and the influence family has on the path that has been laid to express self-reflection in rhythm and rhyme.

Getting Close UP! S1E10 featuring Sean Tyler

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 10 welcomes Sean Tyler; Direction of Communications and Artist Management at Strange Music, Radio Personality, Content Creator, Singer, etc.....etc.....etc.
We thought Sean would be the perfect guest for our season 1 finale. Being an intricate component of the #1 independent record company "Strange Music", his knowledge and wisdom from being in the game for over 30 years can only help other independent artist and creatives to understand their journey and responsibility.
If you are trying to make it in the music entertainment business, you won't want to miss this episode.

Getting Close UP! S1E9 featuring MeShall Shumate

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 9 welcomes MeShall Shumate; award winning filmmaker, photographer and CEO of Shu Productions.
If you've watched the GCU! Game Time with MeShall Shumate, you can just image what this interview is like. Between the laughs and during the fun Danielle and MeShall talk about the early years of being behind the camera, shooting music videos to original music comprised by she and her cousin's collaboration, to now; still behind the camera, but taking it to the next level of writing, directing and shooting her original movies.

Getting Close UP! S1E8 featuring Mike Murphy

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 8 welcomes Mike Murphy; singer, songwriter, and lead vocalist for the band Sunny Side Down.
Tune in to this episode as Danielle and Mike dig deep into the emotional abyss from where the melodies and words are birth. 

Getting Close UP! S1E6 featuring Ryan Hamilton

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 6 welcomes Ryan C. Hamilton; a photographer, music blogger, and documentarian.
Check out this episode as Danielle and Ryan discuss the road to finding your passion and the sacrifice, the confidence, the struggles, the commitment, and the determination it takes to live there.
Out of his love of music Ryan co-founded the music and apparel business "Music and Other Drugs", where he features independent artist which also helped guide his path into photograph.

Getting Close UP! S1E5 featuring Telepharo Howard

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 5 welcomes Telepharo; a rapper, singer, song writer and barber.
Check out this episode as Danielle and Telepharo talk about his turbulent past and a praying Grandmother.
See how both have influenced his 30 + years journey to releasing his first project of deep feeling and inspirational relationship beliefs. Delivering a musical message that will offer positive vibes in the navigation of love.

Getting Close UP! S1E4 featuring Lawanda Spears

Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 4 welcomes LaWanza Spear the author of "Southern Stories: The Family Secret". Pinned under the pseudonym "Albe Charles", her story of a family and the highs and lows they go through is so relatable, you will find yourself thinking through memories from your only family's secrets.
Host Danielle Cox is enamored with the chance to interview an author of Ms. Spears caliber.
Check out this episode as Danielle and LaWanza give insight into the determination, procrastination and the revelation of God's timing that is needed to complete a 20 year labor of love.