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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

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As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.

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Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.

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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 17th, 1942

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