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Chelly Hudson's Inspiring Saga of Dance, Style, and Self-Expression
Imagine a world where dance and fashion collide most spectacularly. That's exactly what our guest, Marchelle "Chelly" Hudson, is living every day. On this episode of Spit 2 Da Beat Podcast, we get up close and personal with Shelly as she takes us through her incredible journey from a shy elementary school dancer to a professional performer with Silver Studios—now Grindhouse Dance. Chelly talks candidly about how dance has been her primary language of self-expression and shares life lessons she’s garnered from her rigorous training and performances.
And just when you think you know her story, Chelly switches gears and dazzles us with her venture into the fashion world during the pandemic. She introduces her brand "N'Decisive," a name born out of her moments of wardrobe uncertainty, and reveals the art of crafting a maximalist aesthetic. Learn how Chelly's eclectic style is making waves and carving out a niche that is anything but indecisive. This episode is a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the intersections of creative expression and the boundless potential of following one's passions. Tune in for an inspiring conversation with a young woman who is truly unstoppable.
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Speaker 1:Nobody do it better.
Speaker 3:Make sure you subscribe to my show Spit to the Beat Podcast on YouTube. Subscribe, like and hit that notification bell. Thank you. We are in the studio Spit to the Beat Podcast. I'm your man, stacy B Unstoppable Perrier, and today I am joined in the studio with a very special guest, a young lady who's out there doing her thing, getting ready to end the fashion industry and making it happen, and I'm so super proud of her, been watching her for the majority of her life as she was growing up. But also now she's doing something totally different, going from dance to fashion. We're going to get into it and I'm going to let her introduce herself. Coming to the stage is, I like to say, my young protege-type person who's been in my life since I've been known. My shelly Huston, how you doing.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm doing good.
Speaker 3:Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. I'm glad to be here. Good, good, let's hear a little bit about yourself. Introduce yourself to my audience.
Speaker 2:So I'm Marcelle, but everybody call me Shelly. I'm a dancer. Started dancing in elementary.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And it went on and went on High school cheerleading, majoring, just everything, Tumbling, all of that, and then I got into fashion 2022,.
Speaker 3:COVID Wow. So let's back up a minute. You know we're going to jump over all that dancing experience. Let's talk a little bit about that. You start out dancing. You said elementary, and then you went on, even danced on Silver Silhouette dance team, and then you went on for that. How has dancing been for you? I mean, how has that mold you as a person?
Speaker 2:I would say for a long time. It was the only way I knew how to express myself.
Speaker 3:Okay, and meaning the term as far as through dancing and music. Yes, so you're saying you was a little shy back then? I can't tell.
Speaker 2:I'm still shy now.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay. So let's check this out, let's talk about the dancing and stuff like that Going from, like I said, elementary high school. Also, now you started dancing professionally a little bit as well, a little bit. Okay, tell us about that experience, and who have you danced with professionally?
Speaker 2:Once I got off, the team well, started with silver studios. That is now grindhouse dance. Um, we had been dancing professionally like going to chaos it's a convention going to monsters. So she had been prepping us for the real professional world and how things go that whole time.
Speaker 3:So how has that been for you? I mean, she prepared you, but what did you get from it? What did you take from it? Life, life.
Speaker 2:Really how to go about things and how to go about in the dance world and how to really set your mind up to succeed in dance.
Speaker 3:Okay, cool, let's talk about going into the fashion thing. How has the transition whether the thought the name of your brand let's say what's the name of your brand first. Indecisive, indecisive, indecisive. Let's talk about that name and I was kind of curious about it. You know, indecisive and knowing that when people are indecisive, they're indecisive about making a complete or sticking to a decision. So how did you come about with that name? What inspired you?
Speaker 2:So how I came about that name is. I was always confused, like I don't know what I want to wear, I don't know how I want to go about this or which way to go in fashion, but I didn't have a way. I wanted to mix everything together and be one whole, because I was going for a maximalist look. But I didn't find it anywhere, so I just started piecing everything together. So what?
Speaker 3:is maximalist. Look what is that. I've never heard that before. So what is that? Is that a term in the industry, fashion industry, or what?
Speaker 2:Yes, it's minimalist and maximalist, so right now I'm dressed like a minimalist.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I see you and your cowboy stuff. Really. You know I'm a fitzberry fan, but we're gonna get over there. Tell your mother too well, yeah okay, so I have seen, um, you have done a couple shows. Uh, tell us about the shows that you have done and, um, how did you feel about putting that together, collaborating with other people, other artists and stuff like that?
Speaker 2:The shows I really been putting shows together since I was ever on the dance team, okay, but it was a totally different ball game when I was over everything the dancing, the clothes, the music, but it's been a breeze. I think I like doing it.
Speaker 3:Rob Markman Jr. So I know it was rough starting off, tough for you. Like you just said, I didn't know you was doing the music. You were doing the whole complete show, the music with it, the dancing with it and the fashion. Yes, wow, wow. What made you take on so much? Did you feel that you was ready for that? Or you just, you know you, dive right into it?
Speaker 2:No, but, I just had to get myself together. I just I had to do something.
Speaker 3:I don't know. So, through your trial and error, what have you learned from doing them? When you're putting on the show, your music, your dancing, has anybody ever spoke to you Mentors? Anybody that you know of that spoke to you, kind of gave you a little leeway on how to do it. Oh, I know you got some mentors in your life Shania Toot and others.
Speaker 2:Tootie, miss Sean, coach Cookie. Really, them three is who I look for when I'm doing a show, because they my three that I know they have been putting on shows since I've been little.
Speaker 3:Okay, let's talk about your fashion. First of all, hold on, before we go on the phone. We're going to take a little short break, we're going to come back and we're going to talk a little more about your fashion. And I'm going to talk about your number one supporter, which is your mom. We're going to talk about your number one supporter, which is your mom.
Speaker 1:I'll be right back. You're listening to Spit, to the Beat Podcast with your host, the one, the only, stacey B, unstoppable Puryear.
Speaker 3:Hey, this is Stacey aka Beat Unstoppable Puryear with Spit to the Beat Podcast. Would you like to be my guest? If you're a singer, songwriter, musician, producer or promoter, give me a call at 901-341-6777 or email me at myguest at spit to the beatcom. So so.
Speaker 3:And we're back to the Spit to the Beat podcast. I'm your host, stacey B, unstoppable Prairie. We are in the studio with my very special guest Marsha. They call her Shelly Hudson, the new fashion, upcoming fashion designer, bringing about her style, maximalism and all that intel. So we was talking. We left off talking about her style and maximalism and all that and tell. So we was talking. We left off talking about your fashion and stuff.
Speaker 3:So let's talk about a little bit your number one fan, your mother. How has she inspired you to go down this journey, to keep going?
Speaker 2:First, well, really she inspired me to even get into dressing up Because she used to always tell me girl you country, girl you can't dress, girl, you need to put on some clothes. So she always really pushed me to the extent with clothes and looking good and really just fashion overall.
Speaker 3:Okay, awesome. So let's talk about your fashion. What is your style? I know that Memphis is known for its rich culture as far as music and arts and stuff like that. How has that part played into your fashion life? Anything that really just like a piece of artwork around the city inspires you, motivates you to bring out this design in your clothes, I'd say it's the artwork.
Speaker 2:That in a sense, because I look at the shape of an artwork and I think of a piece. Maybe I could put it on a piece of pants, or how I could make a jacket. It just really depends on how I'm feeling honestly and does the music play a part to it as well.
Speaker 3:The sound, what you're looking for, Because you talk about the sound, doing the sound, the dance and then the fashion. So does that flow as far as what you come out, the final product?
Speaker 2:Yes, when I'm doing a show, like if they modeling and I hear a song, I can be like perfect outfit, the runway and I can see through it, basically Okay you can see several fashion outfits for that particular music.
Speaker 3:That's amazing within yourself. So that's, that's an amazing gift. Let's talk a little bit about um you coming about now you're doing you did a couple fashion shows and stuff like that. What's in, uh, what's in the future? What's what's up?
Speaker 2:So I do have a collab with Ballybasses.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I have two fashion shows coming up before the year is over and I'm really trying to get more out of my dancing going out of town, so that's really what I got coming up.
Speaker 3:So is dancing and fashion, they going back and forth, or what? Which way are you going now? Both, both.
Speaker 2:I want to dance on tour, but also I want to be the designer for tour.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I can see that, I can see you doing it.
Speaker 2:I want to be able to multitask in both.
Speaker 3:Dance, choreograph and do the fashion. Yes, you ain't going to be doing her next to you.
Speaker 2:I want to learn. I do want to learn.
Speaker 3:It's in your blood because your mother is in your blood. Oh, wow, that's a lot. That's a lot. So you see yourself growing so much in the next. So what's in the next couple of years for Shelly, besides this big event you just announced? When is that happening?
Speaker 2:My next show will be the end of October Okay, just around the corner. The end of October, okay, and then Just around the corner, huh, yeah, wow. And then the second show will be the beginning of December and then the collab with Valabassas. There's just I don't know when it's going to drop yet, but, okay, we working on it.
Speaker 3:Tell us about that, I don't know. Tell me about it.
Speaker 2:Um, basically Valabassas is like they known for their jeans basically. But they got the jeans, the shirts. Everybody really kind of know about them a little bit.
Speaker 3:How did they get in contact with you about it?
Speaker 2:They was having a designer fashion show in a sense, but we was competing on who could make the best jeans, and then whoever make the best jeans and get the most votes, they'll do a collab with us. Okay, and have a billboard in New York.
Speaker 3:So it was a contest, mm-hmm. And how did you fare in that contest? You're believing that it's going to happen.
Speaker 2:I really just believed that I could do it honestly. There you go I just believed that I could do it. Yeah, Okay awesome.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about okay again. You said you had some shows coming up in October. Learning from your past putting on shows from the music, the dancing to the fashion. How prepared are you? Better now than you was before.
Speaker 2:I mean now it's like I always have to keep, I would say, how my fashion show is going to be in my head. I have to be prepped.
Speaker 3:I know it takes a lot of planning, but I think your planning now has gotten better, since your first couple shows that you did. I mean you got your first couple shows that you did. I mean you got your ABCs, or whatever in place. Yes, because Do you have a team?
Speaker 2:that helps you In a sense. Well, I have one friend that I had to have help me get together with the show and a friend that helped me with the dancing part, but most of the time I just had to plan and prep by myself and because I had last minute accidents, I just try to be on the ASAP now.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, did you learn from those last minute accidents? Yes, yeah, yes, great learning experience. That's good, that's good, that's good. Yeah, yes, it was a great learning experience. That's good, that's good, that's good. All right then. Hey look, I really enjoyed this time and learning about you.
Speaker 1:Is there anything?
Speaker 3:how can people get in touch with you? How can they find you? Make sure you give out all the dates or whatever's coming up so they can be in the house and checking your fashion, your music and your dance, everything out.
Speaker 2:Okay, my Instagram is baby. My personal Instagram is babyshelly, where you can see fashion and dancing, but my fashion Instagram is indecisivefashion. On Instagram, where am I fashioning? And I'm on Facebook with my fashion. I don't have a personal page. What about?
Speaker 3:YouTube, anything on YouTube. Some videos out there, people can go check out.
Speaker 2:I actually do have a YouTube. It's called Shelly for Deluxe.
Speaker 3:Shelly for Deluxe. Okay, cool, cool, so they can find you on all those social media platforms. Awesome, yes, all right, hold tight as we get ready to close the show out. One, two, three, four, what's up? Good people, this your man Comedian A-Train, and I want you to keep it locked right here on Spit to the Beat Podcast.
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