After being on tour with Alicia Keys, I have grown. I feel the experience helped me learn so much, especially about being on the road. I’ve admired Alicia’s career and music for so long and it was great to see how she does what she does. It was a really great lesson and a great example for me because I got to see how professional and classy and positive the tour was.

It helped me set a standard for the way things can be done and how to effect people positively with music all over the world. It was great just being in her presence. Everybody was so great around us, it was a real family environment and I was just really fortunate for the opportunity. I feel very honored to have opened for her and have supported her on the world tour. (Read more… )

Michael Jackson is a wonder…A wonderful man from another world that blessed us with his presence and gifted us with witnessing creativity at its finest.

I’ve always been a fan, I mean, who isn’t? I love this man. I try to imagine how exactly it was when he got into the studio. I imagine him being like a fountain of ideas. Floating melodies, rhythmic beat boxes flowing from his mouth. Bright energy and dances that just appeared out of every moment. How badly do I wish that I could have witnessed anyone of those magical Quincy Jones sessions. Can you IMAGINE how THAT was!

Michael Jackson is absolutely the most important artist of my generation! He changed everything. And still to this day, Michael’s flows, dance moves, performances, and video inspirations are everywhere you look! That’s how you KNOW he was a force of nature that was meant to come before us and show us what innovation and fearlessness looks like!

And that’s my favorite thing about him. How he was unafraid to be totally unique, and special and one of a kind. THAT’S how you become unforgettable!! (Read more… )