Music is the song I’m singing… Music is the way I’m giving… Music gives my life the meaning… Music makes my world go round… This is a performance of “Music” at the 2009 All Out Jazz Tribute to LGBT Jazz Greats.

The Barbados Music Awards was such a magical night. R&B legend Regina Belle was sitting in the audience (I heard she took a picture of me while I was performing). A big thank you to Walter Greene and Ronnie Morris for making this happen, and for Kirk Shannon-Butts for great styling.

I had a great time talking with Cassandra on Good Morning Barbados TV, I didn’t enjoy getting up at 4:30 AM to videotape the show… lol, but the experience was truly amazing. A big thank you to Ingrid:)

“They call it Stormy Monday” – when I first heard Bobby Blue Bland singing this song, I knew I had to perform it. I’m in love with the blues now… lol I performed this at the Verve show at the Brooklyn Society of Ethical Culture.

Performing “I Miss You” at the Cutting Room in New York City, we had Marcelo Cardozo on guitar, Ralph Stowe on Keyboards, Yusuke Shibata on bass guitar, and Mike Veny on drums. Its one of my favorite songs to perform:)

Thanks to Rome Neal, I and a number of LGBT artists had the opportunity to perform jazz standards at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe in the East Village. This was the Tribute to LGBT artists and LGBT Jazz Greats.   Each performer did a song by an LGBT Jazz Great – like Cole Porter, Bessie Smith and Andy Bey.  We did the show at Joe’s Pub and then at Rome Neal’s banana pudding jazz series.

India.Arie is one of my favorite artists and “Brown Skin” is one of my favorite songs to perform.   The crowd here in Atlanta were amazing – they were right there with me every step of the way… Every Body Beautiful hosted by Tim’m West.

The performance was so much fun – Atlanta is the place to perform, the audience gave nothing but love to me and my acoustic soul. I did a cover of India.Aries “Brown Skin” – such a great song (I wish I wrote it:)

This was an amazing experience for me.  Singing “His Eye is on the Sparrow” in gay black christian affirming church had such a profound effect on me.   Rehoboth Temple in Harlem is a predominantly black gay church, but is welcoming to everyone.  It was so affirming to reclaim this gospel music that I love and sing it for a congregation of gay black christians who really understood what I was singing about.

I love performing this song “The Beggar’s Cup” – its my reggae song and growing up in the Caribbean, we all love reggae. Its one of those songs that wrote itself. I sat on the bathroom floor in my apartment in Staten Island and this song just flowed. In about 15 minutes it was done. Enjoy:)