Cécile McLorin Salvant

And it was in a small jazz club. It was a tiny jazz club in Aix-en-Provence with like five people in the audience. But it was horrifying.

I sang It's Only a Paper Moon. I sang Body and Soul. I sang Lover Man. I sang You're Just Too Marvelous for Words. In my best and most intense Ella Fitzgerald impression mixed with some Sarah Vaughan.

I sang It's Only a Paper Moon. I sang Body and Soul. I sang Lover Man. I sang You're Just Too Marvelous for Words. In my best and most intense Ella Fitzgerald impression mixed with some Sarah Vaughan.

I sang It's Only a Paper Moon. I sang Body and Soul. I sang Lover Man. I sang You're Just Too Marvelous for Words. In my best and most intense Ella Fitzgerald impression mixed with some Sarah Vaughan.

I think as I go through the phase with whoever it is, I am trying to sing as best I can like them. I think that's what was happening. But I was failing. You can never really sing like someone.

I think as I go through the phase with whoever it is, I am trying to sing as best I can like them. I think that's what was happening. But I was failing. You can never really sing like someone.

I think as I go through the phase with whoever it is, I am trying to sing as best I can like them. I think that's what was happening. But I was failing. You can never really sing like someone.

The failing is becoming yourself, yeah. And it's interesting, like the singers that he had me listen to, Yes, there were those big ones, the famous ones. But what was more interesting was all of the music by people that are completely unknown or not celebrated enough. People like Lil Heart and Armstrong.

The failing is becoming yourself, yeah. And it's interesting, like the singers that he had me listen to, Yes, there were those big ones, the famous ones. But what was more interesting was all of the music by people that are completely unknown or not celebrated enough. People like Lil Heart and Armstrong.

The failing is becoming yourself, yeah. And it's interesting, like the singers that he had me listen to, Yes, there were those big ones, the famous ones. But what was more interesting was all of the music by people that are completely unknown or not celebrated enough. People like Lil Heart and Armstrong.

If you're doing a Lil Heart and Armstrong imitation, no one's going to really know because they don't know who she is, unfortunately. Right.

If you're doing a Lil Heart and Armstrong imitation, no one's going to really know because they don't know who she is, unfortunately. Right.

If you're doing a Lil Heart and Armstrong imitation, no one's going to really know because they don't know who she is, unfortunately. Right.

Oh, I would love to talk about this.

Oh, I would love to talk about this.

Oh, I would love to talk about this.

The lyric is attributed to this man named Robert Devereaux. The music is John Dowland. Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, who was Queen Elizabeth's, Elizabeth I's favorite or one of her favorites. And it's an interesting lyric because he talks about his desire and the desire can be read two ways as a desire for her or a desire for power.

The lyric is attributed to this man named Robert Devereaux. The music is John Dowland. Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, who was Queen Elizabeth's, Elizabeth I's favorite or one of her favorites. And it's an interesting lyric because he talks about his desire and the desire can be read two ways as a desire for her or a desire for power.

The lyric is attributed to this man named Robert Devereaux. The music is John Dowland. Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, who was Queen Elizabeth's, Elizabeth I's favorite or one of her favorites. And it's an interesting lyric because he talks about his desire and the desire can be read two ways as a desire for her or a desire for power.

And what happened to the Earl of Essex is that he was found out in a plot against her and was then killed. I mean, like executed by the queen for plotting against her. And the song basically, it's just everything is there.