Band Quote by Jon Gordon

Nat King Cole was a really big influence.

— Bryan White

I certainly knew who was there before me - Nat King Cole, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Billie Holiday - not only because that was…

— Leslie Uggams

I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.

— Bradley Walsh

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but…

— Donnie Fritts

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

— Daryl Hall

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole,…

— Gloria Estefan

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

— Domino Kirke

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther…

— Justin Townes Earle

Rappers were my storytellers.

— Jason Reynolds

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the…

— Carlos Santana

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

— Robin Trower

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa,…

— Donovan