“In my early twenties, performance artists and comedians in their thirties and forties were telling me to bare my soul," he recounts ... bird puns – is about to take off.

"I couldn’t allow myself to kill my soul in order to work in an environment that I didn’t agree with”. It's a typically dramatic statement from Kamiya, but hey, he's a man of principle.

She never matched her first run of success, although she did have a hit in the 1980s with the Peabo Bryson duet “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love ... “First Take,” a blend of gospel, soul ...