Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.