![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Jackson saw that video and asked me what influenced me. Kenny! My man! He did the “Rosanna” video with Cindy Rhodes, the famous video. I was waving to him (laughs) from my living room, hoping he’d see me on TV. I just saw Kenny Ortega, the director of “Rosanna,” on Dancing With the Stars the other night. I’ve been very blessed with that song right there. I do it when I do functions for South by Southwest, for the United Nations. At the same time, I’ve been very lucky, very blessed, to have a song that has communicated – basically has transcended – all these years, and is still a favorite of a lot of people around the world. I’ve learned to laugh at myself a little bit here and not take it so seriously. Then there’s Family Guy, with Peter Griffin and the whole thing. Then after that, you turn on the TV and there’s Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon doing a two-minute spoof on TV. That was “pinch me” moment, an I’m dreaming kind of thing. I played with Paul Simon’s band and sang it there at the United Nations. As a result of it, not only was it Toto’s number one record here in the United States, but I got invited in 2009 to perform at the United Nations when they introduced Bishop Desmond Tutu and gave him the lifetime achievement humanitarian award.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |