OMC: Tell us about your experiences with Lovher; was it frustrating to have left the group just before it signed a deal?

EE: Well, I feel like the group left me. I was very very close friends with them and I still love and respect them as women but it wasn't meant to be. I was not supposed to be in that group -- they were. That's life. At the time it hurts like hell but you heal and the real challenge is what you do after you've been knocked down. Do you get up? Or stay there? I got up and have never been down since. Now, granted, I've been in situations where people have tried to pull or knock me down, but I'm must stronger now then I was and that is not going to happen again.

OMC: It must have provided some good lessons in the music business for you...

EE: Yes, friends are friends but business is business and hopefully you can find a situation where you can learn to balance the two.

OMC: After that you had a song in a LL Cool J film, too, right?

EE: Yes.

OMC: How did that come about?

EE: I sent my music to my uncle -- Gary Hardwick -- who writes, directs and he's also an author. I always send him my latest work because he tells me the truth about my work. He submitted it for a film he was working on and is made it through. Most people think he walked it in. Noooooo, not my uncle. He is all about you earn what you have in life. He is "Mr. Life is a Heist," he's not going to give me anything and I love him the more for it. When I heard the song made it I was extremely proud because I knew it was good not because he pulled strings.

OMC: Then, of course, Black Elephant, which is probably what you're best known for in Milwaukee now. Why did the group split?

EE: We didn't, all of my bandmates have children. Most recently Dameon, the other lead vocalist, had his fourth daughter and his wife as been a huge supporter of the group and he wanted to honor and respect her by making sure he has time to be there and be a good father. You can help but to support that and I have. I thought it would be a great time to put out my album and I did.

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