| Influences | My Dad, God, My Son, My Love, Dr. Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Mahalia Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan, Jeffery Osbourne, O'Jays, Gamble & Huff, Phyliss Hyman, Temptations, Patti Austin, Wes Montgomery, Dizzy Gillispie, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, India.Arie, Jill Scott, Boys 2 Men, The Rippintons, The Staples Singers, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Tito Puentes, Yolanda Adams, Herbie Hancock, Nona Hendrix, Donnie Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway, Phoebe Snow, Flip Wilson, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Redd Fox, Pearl Bailey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Tracey Chapman, the list goes on. |