Jidenna
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON JACK ANDERSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON RAINI RODRIGUEZ BEN SAUNDERS ANSEL ELGORT BIG BOI I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO TEDDY THOMPSON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving p... SAMPHA CHARLIE PUTH LIL UZI VERT CHELSEA CLINTON To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person ... JIMMY WALES THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir... LAURA OSNES I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth... VON MILLER I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. CHRIS CARTER The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy.... LIL' KIM Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given m... EDDI READER I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI DAN FEUERRIEGEL ZOE KRAVITZ My favorite all-time artist... I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It'... TIESTO BEN STEIN PATTI DAVIS Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ... SHEPARD SMITH 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per... BARBARA LYNN RAY LEWIS I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time.... T.I. JOHN LYDON PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other si... DAVE GAHAN I've recently discovered Cardiobar. It's in L.A. and it has Cardio Aerobics. It's all wo... AMBER STEVENS Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g... ADAM LAMBERT SHAILENE WOODLEY LANA DEL REY XAVIER RUDD AMY CHUA The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It... MARGO JEFFERSON When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from... KADEE STRICKLAND JIDENNA CATHERINE THE GREAT My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed t... DUANE CHAPMAN The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE PAT RILEY ASTRO A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a ... ADAM SHANKMAN STONE GOSSARD For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Fr... MITCH KAPOR Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do... VINCE STAPLES I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that.... CELINE DION VIN DIESEL I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a... DANNY ELFMAN BJ THE CHICAGO KID AVICII LIZA MINNELLI I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING HOLLY COMBS LAILA ALI JEH JOHNSON I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that... BENNY BLANCO DANNY DEVITO I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That&... PETRA COLLINS I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I ... KIM GORDON BRYAN ADAMS I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland... JACK REYNOR FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. JILLIAN HERVEY If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's... VIVIENNE MING ROBERT REDFORD TOM HARDY ALESSIA CARA I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that... KACEY MUSGRAVES I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL CARLI LLOYD I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am. MARAT SAFIN I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m... NORAH JONES TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it come... DREW SIDORA The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That... ERIC CHURCH CHILI DAVIS At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some ... JOHN DENVER 'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional e... MEG WOLITZER ROBERT ENGLUND I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't r... KRISTANNA LOKEN VANESSA CARLTON DOUGLAS ADAMS J. J. WATT
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these g... 
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want... 
When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a g... 
'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood a... 
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul... 
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... 
I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful ... 
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... 
I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her... 
I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for th... 
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#... 
I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that... 
It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The ... 
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime... 
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... 
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they... 
I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and ... 
I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, bec... 
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the... 
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I fee... 
I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had ... 
My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh... 
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. 
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ... 
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to... 
A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity,... 
It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really st... 
Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it's not about being '... 
I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An... 
I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I alw... 
When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can't protect yourself from that. My hea... 
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... 
What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an a... 
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in... 
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's ... 
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... 
For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta... 
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if... 
I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here&#... 
It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be g... 
I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's importa... 
I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. ... 
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and erro... 
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at... 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don... 
Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized. 
I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think... 