Black music Quote by Daniel Caesar

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie…

— Conor Maynard

I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents…

— Rahki

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be…

— John Legend

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni…

— Alanis Morissette

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite…

— Ella Henderson

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started…

— Jorma Kaukonen

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must…

— Robert Palmer

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes and got…

— Natalie Prass

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz,…

— Mayer Hawthorne

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead…

— Alex Clare

My brothers and I had a gospel quartet, and that was the only music people listened to. But I was already gravitating towards songs…

— Al Green