- [Announcer] BECU isn't like other financial institutions, and the difference is people.

Because we're not for profit, there's no boardroom of billionaires maximizing their margins.

Our biggest stakeholders are people like you.

It's our members who make money meaningful, so we focus on helping them thrive.

It's the art student, bringing beauty to his community, that makes a college loan matter.

It's the mother, building her family's foundation, that makes a mortgage matter.

It's people that make BECU matter.

People like you.

- [Narrator] Meta's mission is to build technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Supporting local artists allows us to shape the way we think about building the next evolution of digital connection.

We are proud to support Black arts legacies.

- [Narrator 2] These are necessary conversations.

- [Speaker] Ideas come from everywhere.

- [Narrator 3] And the next generation takes them into a new idea.

- About us, by us, for us, and near us.

- When the music feels good, and the energy in the room is good, I feel in tune.

I feel connected to a source that's much bigger than me.

I feel purposeful.

- We hope.

We hope you enjoy the music and enjoy the night.

Welcome.

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*One *Two *Framed *In the picture.

*They got the birds eye view.

*We can't - *Get any clearer - *On what they want from you.

*Claim, what - *You looking for - *It's what I was always writing poetry, but I didn't really think of myself as a songwriter.

Right outta high school.

I was around 19.

I auditioned for a group.

It became soul.

I was working with a gentleman here named Derek Clark and it was in us recording that project, we placed a couple of songs on a group that the songs never came out, but it was kind of like, oh this is how this goes.

And I really enjoy writing and I'm learning a lot.

And so I was like, I could do this.

Sure, I'll do this.

You know, um, I'll be a songwriter.

I make music when I want.

I take really big breaks and I'm okay with that.

I don't allow myself to feel like I'm racing against a clock or I'm not chasing fame.

I'm not chasing money and notoriety.

I music is just as therapeutic for me as it may be for anyone else listening.

So I- I- I do it when I feel happy and healthy *The only way to come up *is getting down on your knees.

* - *Hollywood.

Hey.

*There's a soul for sale *in Hollywood.

- *All hail Hollywood.

*Hollywood.

- I've been working with Tiffany for at least five years cause we would always play stuff for each other.

She was playing me her, her- her project that she was working on called C Sharp.

*shut duh duh * Don't let it hit you on the way out * - She is refreshing, amazing, educational, inspirational, positive.

Some of the things that she has helped me with in my journey of learning.

Um, she definitely helped to enhance the assembly um of live music and musicians, you know different ways you can write for that and then apply it to the, the actual musicians when they come in.

*if I catch on * Yeah * Stranger things * I've never seen * The way it all... - A thing that sets Tiffany Wilson apart is just her whole her whole being.

She fully embodies, it's almost like she just allows it to come through her.

It's not like she's pushing her sound per se.

It's like she's a vessel.

*hey, my momma My mother would let me come home from school and pick a song for the day and I would sit down and write the lyric.

That's how I would learn.

If I made a mistake, I'd stop and start the song over.

So I quickly learned to really retain because I was starting the song over all the time.

My mom would get tired of that, like, girl.

So writing and lyrics were first - You know, when you watch her like sing or even when she's writing, it's like she's receiving.

She'll catch it and, you know, apply it and it it it really shines when she's doing live stuff cause you'll feel a presence and it's like, man it's just very, very potent.

- *ooh, we got to wait - When I moved to LA I moved by myself.

I didn't really know anyone and I kind of fell into a clique that of really great producers.

They were called a producer coalition and was able to write with them.

But what I saw was one came out and they grabbed another and then they grabbed another and it was teams and they worked together.

And I thought, this is cool.

I'm gonna go back to Seattle and do this.

It didn't come together the same.

That's the challenge for me because there isn't the trust that once I get to the top of this, this wall that I'm gonna reach down and help you climb it too.

And I think once we realize that there's enough for all of us and that we actually need each other to become successful if we could come together as a team here I think there would be no stopping our success.

There is a, a group of really incredibly talented young adults.

It's improv and it's jam and it's, you know sharing the mic, sharing the stage.

I, I, I want to welcome people in and then I wanna set the stage for them to become who's next in Seattle.

They're really brilliant.

* For the ones who got behind us * * And emulate us I think music chose me versus me choosing music.

In my learning, I, I do believe, and I've adopted the idea that we get to choose how we take this journey here in life.

So I chose maybe there before coming that I would have something to do with music.

So I think since I chose it, I'll have it forever.

- Give it up for the legendary Tiffany Wilson.