My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.