Backstage at the GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends 2018®, we asked presenters who they consider their musical mentors.
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I grew up in Washington D.C. and my music mentors was the great Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.
Maestro José Antonio Abreu, that he created the program where I grew up, El Sistema, Venezuela.
And yes, he has been the person that has guided me.
Because I was in inspirational music my musical mentors people think would be in gospel music.
Of course, they are - James Cleveland, Mahalia Jackson, Tramaine Hawkins, Shirley Caesar.
But I also had mentors like Nancy Wilson, Sara Vaughan, you know, greats like that.
A band called the Bad Brains.
I watched them and that's kind of all I needed to know.
Stevie Wonder and, oh yeah Daryl Coley.
These are angels that we have in our life that guide us through this path - this beautiful and amazing path.
