Sneak Peek: Almeta Ingram Miller Podcast

Almeta Ingram Miller: Listen, I got to tell you, that was such an experience for us because here's what happened. We had a hurricane come through here. We were scheduled for that Friday night. I think the hurricane came through that Saturday or that Sunday. So they canceled all of the other festivities that weekend, and they were only going to have the Friday night show. So now we're in the Kennedy Center, and normally we would have done it on the small stage, that show that night, on the Millennial stage. They moved us to the big room where they do the Kennedy Center Honors and all that stuff, because you got all these people in town for the Martin Luther King dedication, and they're not going to have anything on Saturday and Sunday. So here's a Friday night, and everybody's, you know, the place is packed from top to bottom. My mom is standing in the wings, and Victoria Rowell from the Young and the Restless, she is doing the introduction. She had come into our dressing room and met us and had prayer with us and everything, and she did the introduction for us as we got ready to go onstage. And I'm looking at my mom standing in the wings as they're introducing us, and I’m thinking to myself when you were a little girl in the cotton fields of Douglas, Georgia, in Coffee County, could you ever have imagined that you would be standing in the wings of the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, getting ready now to go out onstage before thousands of people and sing at this dedication?