I used to love Sade. I wished so much that I looked like her. I thought she was so beautiful, and I could listen to her sing all day. Such a very lacksadazy, hypnotic voice. She was always quite mesmerizing.
I grew up with 50s, 60s, and 70s R&B, my mom played her R&B records all the time. I really latched onto The Platters' "Great Pretender". I used to play her 45 over and over again. lol. I just loved Tony Williams' voice, couldn't get enough of it. This is also how I fell in love with Smokey Robinson's voice, from my mom's Miracles records. Mom was a huge Roberta Flack fan, and it was easy to love her voice, too. Quite a lady. There was lots of types of music in our house. I had a healthy dose of every genre you can imagine, plus a few that I brought in, like Disco, Rap, New Wave, Techno, and Middle Eastern. Me and my dad both shared a love of Classical and Tejano music. He was more of a guitar man, and loved the old, old Blues greats and also the concert classical guitarists, as well as Chet Atkins. I used to love to listen to him play all the tunes on his guitar. Rock was my brother's love, he was very much into the bands of the day (the 70s) and man could he play them all great on the guitar, everything from CCR and Led Zeppelin, to Jim Croce and Harry Chapin. He was a natural.
When people would question my taste in music or ask me what I liked, Ron, because I have always loved so many different genres, and could never name just one, I would always just tell them, "If it's good, I like it."
