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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
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