…, studied piano and attended performing-arts high schools. Their mother, Eulaulah Hathaway (she never re-married after her husband’s death), is a classically trained vocalist.
Hathaway, who lives in Los Angeles now, still has sentimental ties to her hometown, Chicago, which, she says, is full of culture, great food and music. Members of her father’s family live there and she tries to visit and perform in Chicago as often as possible.
“I do a lot of inward thoughts and meditation,” said Hathaway. “I listen to a lot of music. I’m not an extremely religious person. I am an extremely spiritual person. It’s more of a feeling than something I can talk about.”
“The way I view things is so the way I hear them. It’s really from my own experience. I can hear things in a lot of different ways and I really feel that most people hear and see art through their own lens. So it does me no service to limit how you see things by telling you how I see things. I’m already interested in how people perceive my art and how they perceive what I do. I hear everything: “Oh, you’re a gospel artist; you’re a jazz artist; you’re a neo-soul artist; you’re a pop artist; you’re a blues artist; your sound is low and sultry.” I hear so many different things, and people really are set where they hear things because they’re filtering things through their own lenses, and I really prefer that. It’s limiting for me to tell you what I think it is.”