what happens when people discover you, we have, as worldasters, we live in a where the comparisons areard to process. the person that i have said to friends of mine, bill withers. soul, him in terms of the the sound, the styling. the lyrical content. tell me how you feel about those comparisons. go get this brothers record. -- how do you handle those comparisons? when they do that to a new artist or somebody that just it is ao the scene, difficult weight to carry. i had to think, and we do have some camaraderie. uphave had some church ringing and southern influence. strong mothers and an understanding of gospel blues. glad that my name gets mentioned. i have some writing to do and some singing to do before i deserve it, but i am blessed. i finally got past no love dying, that track hit me again so hard because there is a love and expression of it. tell me about your mom. >> my mother is a minister from shreveport, louisiana. angeles and los bakersfield, california. every church that she had was a mission, she was the head missionary. i am the seventh of eight kids. record was this real