Member Since: 9/8/2006
Influences: My mother and father, family, my ancestors and their indomitable strength & wisdom, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, Motown, Etta Jones, Leontyne Price, Roberta Flack, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Aaron Neville, Billy Stewart, Lena Horne, Peter Tosh, all of the legendary cats I've had the privilege of working with (male & female, instrumental & vocal), Freedom Now Suite, Missa Luba, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Octavia Butler, Vincent Van Gogh, Romare Bearden, Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, Africa, Brazil, the Bible, the Koran, the blues, anime, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Public Enemy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rolling Stones (especially Keith & Mick), Jimi Hendrix, Bill Chinnock, rock and roll, R&B, jazz, music from Zaire, church music from Gregorian to gospel, Ofra Haza, Cheb Mami
Sounds Like:Herself!
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None