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News Channel 7,
with Bob Waters, Meteorologist
Jeff
Kennedy and sports with Mark
Woodley. This is
the KWWL News at Ten."
A WATERLOO WEST HIGH GRADUATE
HOPES TO TURN HIS LOVE OF MUSIC
INTO A
CAREER. NEWSCHANNEL
SEVEN'S DANIELLE WAGNER REPORTS
WHAT STEVEN THORNTON HOPES
PEOPLE TAKE AWAY FROM HIS
CHRISTIAN
RAP MUSIC
AND WHY HE'S SOMEONE YOU SHOULD
KNOW...
(NATS) IN THE STUDIO --
STEVEN THORNTON
TRANSFORMS INTO GEMICES ROYALE.
"Gemini and Pisces put together.
My first born
daugther's a Gemini and I'm a
Pisces. I added
Royale because I like James Bond
movies."
THE CHRISTIAN RAP ARTIST IS
FINISHING
UP A NEW ALBUM -- CONVICTION --
SET TO
BE RELEASED IN MARCH.
"I write my own lyrics and make
my own
beats." THE 26-YEAR-OLD'S
FIRST SINGLE IS
CALLED "SPREAD THAT GOSPEL."
(NATS) GEMICES ROYALE
RECORDED HIS ALBUM
IN WATERLOO -- HERE AT DIGITAL
LOOK
STUDIOS. (NATS) THE WATERLOO
WEST HIGH GRADUATE SAYS
HIS INSPIRATION FOR MUSIC COMES
FROM
GOD. HE'S TRYING TO LIVE A
LIFE FOLLOWING GOD --
AND HE HOPES HIS MUSIC INSPIRES
OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. "I pray a
seed gets planted in somebody's
life so when they hear the
gospel, they're more
accepting of it." GEMICES
ROYALE SAYS RAP MUSIC SOMETIMES
GETS A BAD RAP... BUT... HE
SAYS IT'S
NOT THE RAPPING THAT'S WRONG,
RATHER THE WORDS USED IN THE
RAP.
THAT'S WHY HE DECIDED TO FOCUS
ON
GOSPEL RAP. (NATS)
GEMICES ROYALE SAYS HE COULDN'T
HAVE
MADE HIS ALBUM WITHOUT LOTS OF
HELP FROM FELLOW MUSICIANS AND
PRODUCERS. HIS LONG-TERM
GOAL IS TO MAKE A LIVING
DOING WHAT HE LOVES. (NATS)
IN WATERLOO, DANIELLE WAGNER,
IOWA'S NEWS CHANNEL SEVEN.
THORNTON IS SCHEDULED TO
PERFORM HIS MUSIC DECEMBER 10TH
AND
DECEMBER 17TH IN WATERLOO.
COMING UP ON IOWA'S NEWS CHANNEL