Featuring Appearances by
Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown is both a rapper - as 5th Child - and a college coach for the Woodward Hines Education Foundation's Get2College program. His new album is at 5thchildmusic.com! He lives in Jackson, Mississippi, where he's a member of Redeemer Church, PCA, and dreams of one day meeting his celebrity crush again.
Scott Albert Johnson
Scott Albert Johnson is a singer, songwriter and harmonica player, and associate director of college counseling at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Ridgeland, where he also coaches kickers on the football team and occasionally shares his musical talents with students. He lives in Jackson with his wife, Susan Margaret Barrett, and three children.
Eddie Cotton
Eddie Cotton is a blues musician and alumnus of Jackson State University. He lives in Clinton, Mississippi, and you can often find him playing the strings off a guitar somewhere in the Magnolia State or beyond. Oh, and he's still the music minister at his daddy's church.
Hillary Watkins
Hillary Watkins is a senior at Jackson State University, where she studies vocal performance. She has performed nationally and internationally and competed in regional, national and international competitions. She plans to audition for grad school in New York and looks forward to wherever God takes her next.
Skylar Laine James
Skylar Laine James is a singer, songwriter, student and mom. She attends Mississippi College and is stepmom to two wonderful boys with 1st Lt. Christopher James, a chaplain candidate with the Army National Guard and officer in charge of the Yellow Ribbon Program for Mississippi. They are expecting a son in December.
Agenda
July 6, 2018
Steph Brown - 'A DJ, a catamaran and my celebrity crush'
Stephen was on vacation in Barbados when he had an unexpected encounter with his No. 1 celebrity crush - and everything went well until he blew it.
July 6, 2018
Scott Albert Johnson - 'How a harmonica brought me home'
In the midst of Scott's other pursuits, music was always lingering in the background of his life. When he finally returned to it, it gave him so much more than a career.
July 6, 2018
Eddie Cotton - 'How a preacher's son learned to play the blues'
Eddie Cotton grew up attending church most nights of the week. Despite not being allowed to do much else, he learned more musical genres than he realized in the sanctuary. Good music, he says, means "I won't have to ask you to stand up - I'll have to ask you to sit down."
July 6, 2018
Hillary Watkins - Even a 'queen' must learn to bow
Hillary's vocal talents have taken her everywhere from soprano section leader in high school to performing in an opera production in Italy. But along the way she's had to learn to be a quick learner and stay humble.
July 6, 2018
Skylar Laine James - Life after 'American Idol'
Skylar came in fifth on "American Idol" season 11 and set off to Nashville to pursue a musical career. But something was missing.