I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.