Don't Worry, Be True to You | Madison McFerrin

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• 00:05

  So there's an interesting thing that often happens when you're trying to sort of stake your claim in a particular space or industry or field or domain, and at the same time, you come from a long lineage or history or family that has already become somewhat legendary in that same space, gives you certain opportunities because you're around so much of their genius as you're coming up and exposed to so much so early in life.

• 00:35

  And at the same time, it also brings a whole new set of experiences, expectations, and reactions from other people around you that you have to grapple with.

• 00:47

  That in some way has been the experience of my guest today, Madison McFerrin, the last name McFarren, you probably know, because her dad is the legendary Bobby McFerrin, and her grandfather was actually an opera singer who sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

• 01:03

  So when we sat down at 27 years old, fairly young in her career, yet making a really astonishing sort of step into that world of music, we had a really interesting conversation about where she came from, her influences growing up in a profoundly musical and well known family, and how she kind of navigated that, found her way and continues to really explore what is it that she wants to be doing?

• 01:29

  What is the voice, the impact, the message, the artistry that she wants to bring to the world as she creates and defines and maps her own profession and her own life.

• 01:40

  And who does she want to become as an artist and a human being?

• 01:44

  And what difference does she want to make?

• 01:46

  Love this conversation.

• 01:47

  I'm so excited to share it with you.

• 01:49

  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

• 02:01

  I know from sort of like a pretty early age, you were.

• 02:04

  I mean, clearly you're exposed to music.

• 02:06

  You come up in a musical family.

• 02:08

  I guess we should just sort of throw that out there, get the pedigree out of the way, right?

• 02:12

  So grandfather, I guess, really is where a lot of it started.

• 02:18

  Is that fair to say, in terms of, like, the professional musicians?

• 02:21

  I would say so.

• 02:22

  It seems like even he, growing up, his father was a preacher, and so I'm assuming that there was lots of church music happening in the house.

• 02:31

  But as far as I know, my grandfather and his wife, my grandmother, were probably the first, like, professional musicians to kind of kick off the legacy of sorts.

• 02:42

  But he ended up being the first African American signed to the Met.

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