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I\\u2019ve been lucky enough to be invited onto \\u2018The Social\\u2019 (@TheSocialCTV) a few times. Do you know the show? It\\u2019s like \\u2018The View\\u2019, but Canadian, with four dynamic hosts sharing fast-paced opinions in a raucous, bombastic, high-energy exchange. Producers hand you the topics of the day about 30 minutes before you go on \\u2014 formed by that morning\\u2019s early headlines \\u2014 and then it\\u2019s time to form an opinion and get ready to, no big deal, share it live with millions of people a few minutes later. Definitely one of the most challenging jobs I\\u2019ve ever had and I can\\u2019t tell you how much I admire people like Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst, Lainey Lui, and Jess Allen, who do it day after day.

Since I\\u2019m guest-hosting it\\u2019s usually me onstage with three women \\u2014 while one\\u2019s away \\u2014 and we end up having full-on laugh attacks.\\xa0Well, one day, early in the pandemic, during the \\u201clive from everybody\\u2019s basement\\u201d era, I showed up ready to go on and discovered I was one of *two* guest hosts. The other was Jully Black! Canada\\u2019s R&B Queen. I\\u2019d heard of her but when the camera started rolling I fell in love. She was dynamic, bombastic, full of love, full of energy, and in the virtual green room after the show I invited her on 3 Books. (I knew she was a book lover because she\\u2019d been on Canada Reads \\u2014 \\u201cthe Survivor of Books\\u201d \\u2014 a couple years before.)

Well, after a few years of planning we finally pulled off our long-awaited live and in-person recording of 3 Books \\u2014 up in Markham, Ontario, an hour north of Toronto \\u2014 inside the 24-hour, 365-day-a-year, 68,000-square foot sauna and bath house Go Place (@goplace_toronto). I had never been but Jully was a regular so we put on our checkerboard paper shorts and shirts and lounged on a couple curvy chairs before hitting record (and before hitting the hot and cold rooms afterwards.)

I think you\\u2019ll find this as fascinating a conversation as I did. Jully is a true icon \\u2014 named one of \\u2018The 25 Greatest Canadian Singers Ever\\u2019 (CBC Music)\\xa0with multiple singles reaching Top 10 pop, R&B, and dance music charts. She has sung for the Queen of England, she\\u2019s been inducted into Canada\\u2019s Walk of Fame, and, as you\\u2019ll hear, she took the bold stance of changing the words to Canada\\u2019s National Anthem on its largest global stage. Her activism wins praise, plaudits, and, yes, some poo-pooing, but if you know Jully \\u2014 and you will soon if you don\\u2019t! \\u2014 she takes it all in stride and then she manifests another great day. She\\u2019s somebody who is seemingly always vibrating on another level.

Jully has been in the game for three decades, scoring her first record deal as a teenager, and collaborating with endless legends like Nas, Choclair, and Destiny\\u2019s Child. She\\u2019s\\xa0an\\xa0activist, award-winning musical theater star,\\xa0community organizer, and much, much more. In this conversation Jully shares secrets of artistic longevity, thoughts behind her decision \\xa0to change the lyrics of \\u2018O Canada\\u2019 at the NBA All-Star game, her definition of allyship, how we learn to forgive ourselves, what a \\u2018blanket ceremony\\u2019 is, how we navigate the death of our parents, her 3 most formative books (of course), and much, much more\\u2026

Let\'s flip the page into Chapter 126 now...

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