The World Motivation
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
“I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.”
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
We can watch videos of our whole journey - from old tours to doing the AMAs (American Music Awards) in 2013 and through the 'Star Wars' medley or when we sang with Stevie Wonder on the Grammys. I just sit back and say, 'I can't believe we did all this!'
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.