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If you don't like Beyonce, then it's hard for me to trust you. It's like not liking world peace.
I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.
It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order to get a message across... that really influenced the way I write.
It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.
It's so crazy to see people singing along to songs that aren't even released yet. I'm like, 'How do you even know the lyrics? Have you been watching YouTube?'
Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.
Since I'm not good at anything else, I hope I can keep singing for a long time.
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.
Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.
What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
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Al Lopez
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BirthDate
20 August, 1908
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30 October, 2005
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