r.i.p. marvin gaye, stevie wonder. my dad got me into jazz. was growing up in rwanda and none of my friends were listening to that. my dad was such a western music lover. he got me into classic as well. tavis: you said that your dad was the only one in the village listening to it. >> i was fortunate enough to be brought up in a family where we were part of what you would call the intellectual elite. both of my parents studied in germany. they were in tune with what happened in the west. my dad was an engineer. i think that he secretly wanted to be a musician himself. tavis: don't we all? >> i believe that. i think we all have an artist waiting to come out. my dad was the first one -- this is far from being the common rules in rwanda. my dad encouraged me in the music career choice. he encouraged me to take my first studio sessions. he always had a fascination. he was really fascinated by western culture as a whole and music in this particular case. i grew up listening to a lot of african-american artists and watching a lot of eddie murphy and