They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.

Julio had a great run with Atlanta. He loves Bobby Cox, loved playing with the Braves. They gave him an opportunity no one else would.

[Working with such a wide array of artists also] made my singing better, ... I needed to be with musicians to reinforce me.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.