Beamed direct from his Woodaworx Recording Studio in America’s Deep South, he’s looking, it has to be said, very dapper in a black trilby with a pink sweater. “She said whut about me?!” Kelvin responds in mock outrage, after I mention Kendra’s comment to him. Even though I felt like ‘I’m doing my thing over here!’” Kendra laughs, “When I saw Kelvin it was like, ‘Woh, he’s one of my people. He’d always have on some kinda poncho and a crazy hat. “When I say special, it wasn’t just what he chose to play, but what he embodied - he looked like a young Stevie Wonder dressed different & tasteful. “Yo that dude right there is special man.” Said funk heroine and former member of D’Angelo’s Vanguard band, Kendra Foster, recounting the moment she first witnessed Wooten play keys on Tom Joyner’s Fantastic Voyage cruise over a 15 years ago. Whenever you speak to a musician that’s worked with maverick producer - & now artist - Kelvin Wooten, a familiar theme crops up. Two blokes watching Kelvin Wooten with Raphael Saadiq’s band. “Shit, don’t he look just like a modern day Black Moses?” “Man, who is that on keys? He can really play.”
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