5 Things To Know About Married Soul Duo – Hollywood Life

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• The War And Treaty are a soul duo made up of married couple Tanya & Michael Trotter Jr.
• They carried out alongside Brothers Osborne on the 56th Annual CMAs on November 2022
• Their main label debut album, Lover’s Game, was launched on March 10, 2023

The War And Treaty are taking the stage for the the National Memorial Day Concert on the U.S. Capitol. The soul duo, made up of married couple Tanya & Michael Trotter Jr., shall be performing on the particular occasion alongside actors John Slattery, Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna. The occasion, which “unites the country in remembrance and appreciation of those who gave their lives for our nation,” per the live performance’s web site, will happen on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 28.

Fresh off their spectacular efficiency on the CMAs, The War And Treaty’s Memorial Day live performance will certainly have followers in search of out the 411 on the powerhouse musicians. Learn extra about them, under.

The War And The Treaty Really Are Married

“His personality drew me in initial and then the sparks started to fly. I knew that I was hooked,” Tanya recalled to NPR about first assembly Michael, when she was a singer going by the title Tanya Blount. The two fell in love and received married in 2014.

However, the pair aren’t precisely certain who first felt the love match! “We met at a festival in Maryland that I used to do for kids where we would give away backpacks around back to school time,” Tanya informed People of her now-husband. “He was performing there, and he blew me away.” Michael had a special model in his reminiscence. “Actually, I noticed [Tanya] a long time before that,” he stated. “When I first saw her, I said to my parents that she was going to be my wife. I saw her on the big screen back in the ’90s (in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit) and I was like, ‘That is my wife right there.’”

In a separate interview with BlackandMarriedwithKids, Michael gushed, “We started working and hanging out a little bit professionally. Before I knew it, my eyesight started changing towards her. She’s such a beautiful person, a beautiful woman and I was like, ‘wow God, could you really bless me with something like this?”

Michael Thought He Messed Up His Chance With Tanya

“I decided I was going to tell her how I felt,” Michael recalled to BMWK. “We were texting back and forth and she told me I left my sweater at her house and she asked what I was going to leave next? So I told her, ‘my heart’. I tried to have a little Jerry McGuire moment, ‘you had me at hello’, and Tanya hung the phone up. I didn’t hear back from her until the next day around 12:30pm. The whole night I was thinking that I’d just ruined the relationship. But she called me and we went out to dinner and the movies. And we’ve been together since.”

Tanya & Michael Share 4 Kids

The singing duo have a giant brood at house to look after when they don’t seem to be touring. “We are parents of a 9 and 11 year old girl and we have a son we had together in our marriage who is nineteen months, and then we also have a teenage boy,” Tanya had defined again in 2013 to BlackandMarriedwithKids.

They Made History At The CMAs

Not solely did they wow the gang with their rendition of The Rolling Stones’ “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)” alongside Brothers Osborne on the 56th Annual CMA Awards, however in addition they made historical past! “Me and Tanya being the first black husband and wife duo to touch the stage of the CMAs — it’s really something to where we’re like, ‘Wow, if we’re going to work hard, this is the reason why we’re going to do it,” Michael defined to People.

Tanya Helps Michael With His PTSD

When the pair had met, Michael was affected by a post-traumatic stress dysfunction that had developed whereas serving in Iraq as a soldier within the U.S. Army’s sixth Infantry Regimen, per People. He nonetheless battles it as we speak, however with the assistance of his loving spouse.

“There are days when Tanya and I just look each other in the eyes and say, ‘Are you OK today?” Michael defined to the outlet. “Is today the day that I need to be a little bit more extra with you? Do I need to hold your hand, Mike? Do I need to run some cold water on your fingers? These are things that normal bands don’t have to think about, but these are things that this band thinks about.”

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