If people do enjoy it, that would be amazing because everyone has gone through heartbreak and pain in some form or another.

If my music makes one person feel acknowledged and heard, then I've done my job and I'm more than satisfied.

Yes, of course, there was soul and R B and blues and jazz and Motown stuff, because that's my family.

But, you know, my father also played a lot of classical music around the house.

Movie soundtracks, Um, even like the radio's top 40 like, we really listened to everything growing up.

So, um, that's always gonna be in the background.