'She was just riveting and powerful, and just electric on stage.'ĭivinity never heard Beyoncé say 'I'm tired'ĭivinity was over the moon. He remembers that when she first played for him and the other counselors, 'it blew us all away.' When camp was over, Wooten asked Divinity to tour with him and his band. 'Divinity came across as the complete package - more than myself,' Wooten says. 'And when I heard that he was having the camp, I said, 'I have to go.''

'He has this philosophy about how music and nature are really connected and interrelated so he was teaching life and survival skills as well as bass,' she says.

She learned that her idol, bassist Victor Wooten, was hosting a bass camp in Tennessee. They're cool being in the cut.' (No offense to guitarists, she's quick to add.)ĭivinity practiced and played at clubs whenever she could. She's pretty sure now that her 'vibe' was responsible: 'Bass players are more laid back. She recalls that when she told a bassist friend she was ready to pick up an instrument again, he told her, 'You're a bass player. You talk like a bass player.'ĭivinity went to the University of California at Berkeley to study journalism, but says she ended up mostly hanging out with musicians. Years later, she used a voice-mail recording from her mom in the song ' Miracle,' on her solo album ImPossible. 'Addiction is real,' she adds, 'and it tears people apart.'ĭivinity says her mom has been in recovery for 30 years now. I think my mom just checked out at a certain point.

'And then as soon as I got better, my sister had arthritis in her knees, so then she started going to the doctor every week. I had this really rare blood disorder as a kid, so she had to take me to the doctor every single week,' Divinity recalls. Divinity's first instrument was clarinet.īut when she was in middle school, her mother started doing drugs. She's been playing music since she was a little girl, and spent a lot of time with her uncle who played bass and saxophone. go out there and be something in the world and you got to be prepared.' Channeling her mom's energy, Divinity says, 'The lyrics are just about being prepared for your day, because preparation is the key to success.'ĭivinity Roxx was plenty prepared when she auditioned for Beyoncé, but getting to that point in her career wasn't always easy. 'And you got to make opportunities for yourself and. 'She would give us a sermon every morning about how it was time to get up and why we were going to school,' Divinity recalls. Weekday mornings were upbeat at the Atlanta home of little Debbie Walker, the future Divinity Roxx.

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