This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
“I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.”
“At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.”