The Story
The music was already in my blood
before I took my first breath.
My parents — Trevor Lawrence Sr. and Lynda Laurence — met when they were both members of Stevie Wonder's Wonderlove band. My father played saxophone in Stevie's band. My mother sang background on classic Stevie records and went on to become a Supreme in the 1970s, performing alongside Jean Terrell and Sherry Payne.
My grandfather, Ira Tucker Sr., was the longtime lead singer of The Dixie Hummingbirds — one of the most famous and influential gospel quartets in history. They won a Grammy the year I was born, 1974, for "Love Me Like a Rock" with Paul Simon.
The music wasn't just in my family. It was my family.
I've spent the fifty years since then learning what that means — from banging on pots and pans as a toddler to playing the Super Bowl LVI halftime show in front of 70,000 people and a billion watching worldwide. From taking the RTD bus through Crips territory to get to school, to sitting in a Florida studio with broken air conditioning writing Eminem's Relapse. From jazz jams at Billy Higgins' World Stage in Leimpark Park to touring Europe for nine years with Herbie Hancock.
This is the story nobody has heard all at once. Until now.