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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

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The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.

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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

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I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

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I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

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I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

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I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

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So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 30th, 1964

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