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Bernie Williams has already played in light lights, but a performance at the beginning of next year could be his greatest – even with four World Series rings.
The former champion of the New York Center Yankees, a long -standing musician who frequented the high school of the show arts while continuing baseball dreams, will play the famous Carnegie Hall on January 13 with the opera singer Jonathan Tetelman.
Even after the end of his days of play in 2006, Williams returned to the music school and has since played in large places, including Radio City Music Hall. He even carried out the national anthem in front of the same yankee crowds which sang his name.
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New York Yankee’s legend, Bernie Williams, performed the national anthem on her guitar before the match between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals on September 22, 2017, at the rate guaranteed in Chicago, Illinois. (Ron Vesely / MLB photos via Getty Images)
“I’m starting to have butterflies in my stomach. I know this guy [Tetelman] is a veteran of these performances, “Williams told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview.” But I often make analogy with baseball that you know almost how much a baseball player is success – statistics, contracts and all this, your figures and your music are a little difficult to say.
“And the only way I could understand how successful you are is the people you play with and by the places you play. So having Jonathan, collaborating with him and playing on this place, is at the top of the list of any musician. I therefore feel extremely honored to be part of this process.”
Williams may have four World Series rings and played under the brightest lights, but even he needs advice before this performance.
“Good luck,” joked Tetelman. “Let’s be prepared. Let’s be prepared. Let’s be ready for anything. I think the scene is one of those things you never know what’s going to happen. You never know how the public will feel. You never know what’s going on or you are getting into a song, and you just have to go with the flow and feel the music and prevent yourself from taking yourself.”
Bernie Williams proceeded to sound control before the start of the induction ceremony of the Baseball Hall of Fame Baseball Hall of Cooperstown, New York, on September 8, 2021. (Frank Becerra JR / The Journal News via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
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The famous saying is that professional athletes die twice, but when Williams retired, he has seen almost an immediate opportunity to chase his other passion.
“My experience of returning to school specifically for music was probably one of the best decisions I have ever taken after baseball. I realized that I had a future in music probably as soon as I finished playing baseball with the Yankees,” said Williams. “We had a little controversial processes with contractual negotiations, and they offered me an agreement in the minor leagues and this and that. And I said to myself:” You know what, it may be time for me to move away from all this and try to reintegrate. “”
“I already had this music bug living in me for a while, and I said to myself:” What do you know? Maybe I should just explore the possibility of becoming something else. “Even if I can’t really call it a career, it’s a second chance to do something that I really like in life and it’s one of my passion.”
Music and baseball are “a different muscle,” said Williams, but there are a lot of comparisons.
Former New York Yankees Bernie Williams playing the “Banner Spangled Star” on the guitar at the Howard J. Lamade stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Al Tielemans / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
“There is a commonplace where you really see all your hard work to materialize. You are part of a baseball team that must meet, but it is not very different from that,” he said. “We are a team and we have a lot of people behind us, really supporting ourselves and hoping that it is a success. It is a different muscle, but at the same time, it is the same thing. Lots of hard work, being prepared, trusting your abilities, not dwelling too much on your mistakes, and it is enough to tear it. It is something that makes me very nervous but in the same thing.”
