Brenda Russell is a lifelong prodigy to me. She always is innovative, creative, and a total original! I love the way she respects her own music, and always adds an innovative twist to each song. When she performs my absolute favorite song "Way Back When," she keeps the same magic in that song performing it live that she brought to it in 1979. She doesn't shorten her songs to save time or make them unrecognizable. She respects her musicians' talents. She looks 25 years younger than she is because she has retained her wonderfully positive enthusiasm about her life and about her music. I have so much respect and admiration for Brenda Russell, whose music has fascinated me since her first album in 1979. I would LOVE to have the chance to be a background singer for her! What an artist!