“He has this philosophy of how music and nature are really connected and interdependent, so he was teaching life and survival skills as well as bass,” she says. She learned that her idol, bassist Victor Wooten, was organizing a bass camp in Tennessee. The Godhead trained and played in clubs whenever she could. They’re cool to be in the cut.” (No offense to the guitarists, she hastens to add.)

She’s pretty sure now that her “vibe” was responsible: “Bass players are more laid back. She remembers when she told a bass player friend that she was ready to pick up an instrument, he said to her, “You are a bass player. You sound like a bass player.ĭivinity went to the University of California at Berkeley to study journalism, but says she ended up hanging out mostly with musicians. Years later, she used a voice mail recording of her mother in the song “Miracle”, on her solo album Impossible. “The addiction is real,” she adds, “and it tears people apart.”ĭivinity says her mother has been recovering for 30 years now. I think my mom just checked out at some point. “And then as soon as I recovered my sister had arthritis in her knees, so she started going to the doctor every week. I had this very rare blood disease when I was a kid, so she had to take me to the doctor every week,” recalls Divinity. The first instrument of Divinity was the clarinet.īut when she was in college, her mother started using drugs.

She has been making music since she was little and spent a lot of time with her uncle who played bass and saxophone.

Roxx deity was a lot prepared when she auditioned for Beyoncé, but getting to this point in her career hasn’t always been easy. “And you’ve got to create opportunities for yourself and… go out there and be something in the world and you’ve got to be prepared.” Channeling the energy of her mother, Divinity said, “The lyrics are just about being prepared for your day, for preparation is the key to success.” “She lectured us every morning about how it was time to get up and why we were going to school,” Divinity recalls. Her mother was president of the local PTA. Weekday mornings were upbeat in the Atlanta home of little Debbie Walker, the future Divinity Roxx.

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