I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
I was inspired by my dad; he played trumpet in high school.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
I'm a terrible trumpet player.
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.