My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.