Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.