I found Beam when he was 16 years old. He dropped his SoundCloud page onto my Facebook. 'I listened to it and was like, these tracks are actually dope.'
I try to be real positive because I know I'm being listened to, and I have a responsibility.
People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.
Mariah Carey was the first singer I ever listened to.
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
