Is there anything Tamela Mann can’t do?
The “Working for Me” singer just released a best selling album, LIVE BREATHE FIGHT. When she’s not working on music, she’s known to grace the big and small screen. To date, she’s appeared in over a dozen of Tyler Perry’s film, stage, and television productions, and she hosts her own cooking show. Mann created her own clothing line for curvy women and she’s co-written a book about love. All this while being a devoted wife and mother.
Tamela Mann can do it all…except when she can’t. When her life and responsibilities become too much to balance, Mann turns to God to give her guidance.
“A lot of times people look at us artists and celebrities [and think] that we don’t go through things,” Mann tells Elev8. “[But] when trouble comes, trouble comes. I was about to lose my mind saying ‘I don’t wanna do this no more’ because it was too much happening at one time! But the Lord seemed to prepare me and equip me to make it through it.”
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Mann’s faith has kept her strong but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still have bad days or bad months or even bad years. Mann shed a few tears along the way, but that’s actually a good thing for the singer.
“Shedding some tears brings me comfort. I really learned this last year, tears are truly my relief,” she recalls. “If we could just shed some tears, it would help a lot of us mentally. That’s a washing away of whatever it is [that’s bothering you].”
She channeled the pain of a particularly rough year in her life into her new album, LIVE BREATHE FIGHT which includes multiple tracks that she hopes will encourage others going through hard times. The song “Big Facts” features the singer giving herself some tough love and realizing that it’s time to make a change for the better. Another song, “Live” is Mann’s testimony about surviving troubled times.
“I gotta live,” the singer explains. “Even though I’m going through it, I’m going to make it through it! That’s my choice, to live.” And she tries to live her life seeing the positive despite negativity that might be swirling around her.
“A lot of us feel like quitting and giving up. It’s hard to look for the good but you hope for the best in all things,” Mann says. “That’s my outlook on life, I try to look for the good in all things. Because we already know the bad is going to happen. Every day won’t be a good day but I feel like we can get past it [and] shed a few tears.”
The singer also advises those who may be struggling to speak up and release their stress by talking it out, or even crying it out.
“I encourage [others] not to dwell on things so long, because the enemy takes that and it turns into captivity in your mind,” she says. “If you don’t talk about it and release it, before you know it, you’re waking up with it, you lay down and it’s [still] on your mind.”
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Above all, Mann says it’s the love of God that brought her this far and will keep and protect her going forward. And she believes God can do the same for others as they go through the mental and physical ups and downs of life.
“I’m so glad that the Lord’s has been on me to give me the strength mentally and physically to work through the things I was going through,” she says. “You be encouraged, go forth, love the Lord with all your heart and the Lord will take you far. That’s happened for me. But you gotta believe and trust and be obedient to the voice of God.”
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