I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.
I was a street performer for two years.
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.
I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.
When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.
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