Gregory Porter taps the music of Nat King Cole
by Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
Jun 12, 2018
3 minutes
At age 6 or 7, remembers singer Gregory Porter, he made a homemade tape recording of himself singing, played it for his mother and was struck by her response.
"She said: 'Boy, you sound like Nat King Cole,' " recalls Porter. "I'm sure I didn't."
No one besides Nat Cole sibling Freddy Cole really does. But those words from Porter's mother launched his lifelong fascination with the music of a jazz giant born and trained on the South Side of Chicago.
So perhaps
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