DOUBLE GRAMMY WINNER GREGORY PORTER ON KINDNESS, CANCELLED CONCERTS AND HIS BROTHER’S UNTIMELY DEATH

There’s no mistaking those distinctive velvety tones or his trademark “jazz hat” when Grammy-winning singer Gregory Porter talks to HELLO! via Zoom from his home in California.

“I’ve been following the rules, I’m isolating,” says the 48-year-old star, who, after the release of his new album All Rise , is hunkering down with his wife Victoria and their seven-year-old son Demyan.

Surrounded by fields stretching for miles, Gregory’s beautiful home – which features a swimming pool, an artist’s studio and a dining room with a table so large it can accommodate his siblings and their families – couldn’t be more different from his humble childhood home a stone’s throw away.

“I have my space and Victoria, who’s an artist, has her studio on the other side of the