She says her "dream" was to have a career like Wooten, a Grammy-winning artist who makes a living writing, recording and performing. "She was just riveting and powerful, and just electric on stage." Divinity 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. You talk like a bass player."īeyoncé Knowles (L) with guitarist Bibi McGill and Divinity Roxx at the 2006 American Music Awards. 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. Divinity Roxx was plenty prepared when she auditioned for Beyoncé, but getting to that point in her career wasn't always easy.
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