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It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.

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Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

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If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.

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I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's inspired by them - versus another person saying they redid your song.

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You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

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For a while, R&B was going out of style. It was kind of getting kicked to the side. The first year the R&B Album of the Year didn't get on the TV portion of the Grammys is when I got nominated.

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I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

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I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

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'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.

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Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 5th, 1978

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