Went back to Cabo Verde, Africa to play at the massive Gamboa Festival. As usual, the Cape Verdean people showed us a tremendous amount of love! Nothing eventful happened, just lots of good music. Big shout out to all my people in the C.V.!!

Just got back from Luxembourg....rockin' with my girl Cherisse Bradley...had some fun.....wanna shout out all the cool people we kicked it with!!

Got invited to speak before the NAACP tonight and present Susan Sarandon with the Rosa Parks Community Activist Award. She's a special woman...I had to research ALL the different ways she has committed to giving back to the community, and I was blown away. We're talking about being a U.N. Ambassador traveling to Africa and India, traveling to Nicaragua to protest social and economic inequality, working in soup kitchens in NYC feeding the homeless, condemning the U.S. government for their treatment of Haitian refugees, volunteering for WEEKS at ground zero after the 9/11 attacks, speaking out against the war in Iraq, and on and ON!! Needless to say it was a HUGE honor for me to be able to speak about all the ways she's stood up for what she believes with no regard whatsoever for possible risks to her very mainstream career. I'm even more of a fan after learning more about her. She's DEFINITELY the real deal.

Got a chance to do something really special today: Was honored to be the "Celebrity Angel" on the Comcast Cable Network show "Everyday Heroes" and present the Project H.O.M.E. Foundation a big screen t.v. donated by Best Buy. Project H.O.M.E. was founded by Sister Mary Scullion and Joan Dawson McConnon in Philadelphia, PA to work towards ending homelessness and poverty and to date they've leveraged $40,000,000 dollars in equity towards housing and economic development in Philly. Truly a beautiful thing that they've started, and as a Philly born cat, it was an honor for me to be able to go back to the City Of Brotherly Love and present this gift to put in one of their Project H.O.M.E. residences so the people getting their lives back together can watch a 42" flat screen while their doin' it!! For more info check out: www.projecthome.org/
Here's a quick shot of me and "Everyday Heroes" host Lamont Graves choppin' it up

Just got back from a tour in Cabo Verde, Africa. It was a great opportunity to play with some tremendous Cape Verdean musicians, and check out some of that African island culture. The style of music was a new one for me, but a beautiful learning experience and it really opened up my musical mind. Big shout out to all the people I met and hung with in Cabo Verde, One Love!

NJN came thru the studio today to shoot a feature on your boy. It's set to air on Feb. 8th so I'll keep you posted on that. Should be a cool little joint. They filmed me playing the piano, laying down some vocals on the new record and showing what the process is for recording vocals, and then came to the house for an interview. Here's a couple shots:

In the lab: doing overdubs for the new Big Fun(K) project at John Lee's Alley Cat Studios....lookin' frustrated with that music right? A couple notes on the piano were out of tune...which explains the looks of frustration....