Gregory Porter in sold-out South African tour: The Grammy-award winning jazz musician is to hold six shows in two cities
is a “culmination of his ideas and thoughts”, rather than a signal of the end of his career. . It’s a continuation of the story of optimism and the idea, the hope of renewal, recovery, regeneration, the reiteration of irrepressible love. Love in spite of its difficulties and problems and questions.
“I feel like this is not a greatest hits, it’s a collection of my thoughts, my music and my feelings and how I want to communicate to the listener and to the audience,” says the 51-year-old musician. Porter grew up in Bakersfield, California, with a minister mother and an absent father. He left high school with a scholarship to play football at San Diego State University but his athletic career came to an end when he injured his shoulder. He then moved to New York to work as a chef.
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