Rising R&B singer-guitarist HERMusicx bonds with her hero LennyKravitz about having musical parents, Miles Davis, and the importance of not listening to others. Read their Musicians on Musicians conversation here
I grew up in the house with Miles Davis, because my mother and [actress] Cicely Tyson, who’s Miles’ ex-wife, are like sisters. I grew up sitting on Duke Ellington’s lap while he played piano, going to the Apollo to see James Brown, going to Madison Square Garden to see the Jackson 5. [My parents] could’ve left me at home, but they didn’t. So I’m watching my mom rehearse, with Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry. It seeps in.
Photograph by Magdalena Wosinska for Rolling Stone. H.E.R.: Hair by Nina Mercado, Makeup by Marissa Vossen, Styling by Wouri Vice at the Montgomery Group. Kravitz: Grooming by Su Han for Dew Beauty Agency.In anything, there’s always going to be pressure to conform, because that looks like it’s going to be easier. The fact that you turned that down, because something in your heart told you . . . I could have rushed to put myself out there, but that was not the move.
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