No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

He, um, he played Ford's inauguration, uh, Reagan's, and he played in their big band, and they would have guest arrangers to keep the music fresh.

And so I, I learned that as a young child, like that, that person, you don't, you don't know their name, but they're very important to a project.

You have also said Anohni challenged you as a singer, too.

Yeah, definitely.

No.

Well, uh, Jason Moran introduced me to the Harlem Stage.

And once a year they dedicate s- um, the theater to, to projects based on the works of James Baldwin, and I chose The Fire Next Time, and that was in 2014.

And I lived with that book for a year in my pocket, reading it over and over again.