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Q. How did you go from an unknown musician to a member of Prince’s band?
My first album was featured on The Africa Channel and a year or two later they called and said, ‘We’re working with Prince and we want to connect you two and see if there’s musician magic.’ It was so random.

They invited me to his concert series at the Forum. We met and I got invited to the afterparty at his house. He had listened to my album but didn’t like it – he liked one song, barely. He was very honest. But he invited me on stage at his house to sing with his band. I was not thinking it would lead to anything, just that it was part of a crazy night. We just started jamming. I sang [Bob Marley’s] “Waiting in Vain.”