Cynthia Erivo

She kept going.

Trying again and again and again.

At the very beginning, she wanted to sort of go in the same route as like the jazz greats.

And it didn't work for her.

And it was sort of what about the Ellas and the Dinah Washington's.

And it just didn't make sense for the voice that she had, also for the history of music that she had.

But she was trying so hard to fit herself into a lane that wasn't made for her because essentially the lane that was made for her was made by her.

But there was never an inkling of her giving up.

I never felt like there was an option for her.

The option was, okay, this doesn't work.

Well, now what?

What else works?

That for me was like a real, like even when I think about it now, I was like, that's the feeling I get from her.

And that actually something about the transformation that happens with her and music, I think is a real spiritual one.

I think she would disappear into music and almost like she was in a trance and then come back again when she was done.

Yeah.

I was curious about the things that she could do.

I realized that there is the skill that this woman had is...

I mean, tantamount to there is no other person like her.

There's no other voice like hers.