What is your first musical memory?
I was about 3, it’s a dream like memory in which I was in a kitchen and there were women singing together as they prepared food.
What was the first album you owned?
Whitney Houston - Whitney …..oh yeah.
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
Organic Farmer =)….and a music promoter.
What song do you wish you had written?
Aretha Franklin - “Respect”
What was the first concert you attended?
Hard to remember…either the Moody Blues or Santana
What three bands or artists, dead or alive, would be part of your ultimate one-night concert performance?
Quest Love, LadySmith Black Mambazo, Miles Davis
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
The Sitar.
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, The Dap-Kings, Zap Mama, Robert Randolph, Ivan Neville, Simphewe Dana, Fiona Apple, Outkast, Flea, Yo Yo ma.
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
“Chains of Temptation”
What one album can you not live without?
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Who was (or is) your biggest influence as a musician?
Bob Marley
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