Welcome to the Silent Giants podcast, a podcast that highlights the superstars behind the scenes of popular culture. This special episode is presented by Ancestry.

This week’s episode is a little different from our traditional episodes. Our special guests on today's episode are closer to me than anyone I have interviewed - these Silent Giants are my own family and ancestors.

Recently I started my ancestral journey and had the extreme honor of partnering with Ancestry. Today you're going to hear a conversation with my 4th cousin Travis Hillard and through Ancestry I discovered we share the same 4th grandmother.

I hope this interview inspires you to trace your own family heritage through Ancestry. Go to Ancestry.com for your free trial!

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Our special guest this episode is Susan Bennett, the silent giant behind the iconic voice of Siri! Susan is a super accomplished voice over actor who has lended her voice to brands Coca Cola, IBM, Papa John's Pizza, McDonald's, AT&T, Wendy's, Goodyear, Ford, and many others but of course we most notably recognize her as Apple’s iconic voice of Siri.

In this episode we learn more about Susan, how her career in music led her to a career as a voice over actor, and of course we learn the story of how she became the voice of Siri. 

So allow me to introduce you to the voice over actor, musician, my friend, the silent giant Susan Bennett.

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Our special guest this episode is Siedah Garrett songwriter of one of my favorite all time songs Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’. Siedah’s career as an artist and songwriter began 40 years ago. She’s written songs or performed backing vocals for countless legends like Madonna, The Pointer Sisters, Quincy Jones, Donna Summers and many others.

As a solo artist you may know Siedah for her beautiful duet with Michael Jackson ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’ off 1987’s BAD. She won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for co-writing "Love You I Do" (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical film, Dream Girls.

In this interview were going to learn more about Siedah, she shares stories about meeting Quincy Jones and shares amazing stories about the making of Michael Jackson’s classic song ‘Man In The Mirror’.

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