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What do you remember about being eight years old? For Gregory Porter, an abiding memory is fearing for his life. And I was cute! I had fat cheeks and curly hair! His brother Brian was even shot in a racist attack, thankfully not fatally.

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But my mother gay so strong. She just stayed in our face and told us that we were below nobody. The double Grammy award-winner explores all this on his sixth studio album, All Risebut without anger. Take the song Mr Hollandwhere he thanks the white father of his love interest for not making an issue of his black skin.

This, he reveals, is the opposite of what really happened. A chunky 6ft 4, he looks imposingly huge as he pours tea from a dainty pot. Have you heard of this? It sounds disgusting. Nat King Cole has been a hero-figure to Porter since he was porter. The second youngest of eight children battling for attention from their mother, Ruth, a hard-working preacher who brought up her brood alone, he would endlessly sing along to her Nat King Cole records — and she loved to listen.

His impressive height was matched by his speed, and teenage Porter was an outstanding American football player, winning a full scholarship to San Diego State University. His early 20s were tough. In a perfect storm of sadness — the end of his sports gregory, the death of his mother from breast cancer and the break-up of a serious relationship — Porter took solace in the only way he knew.

Everything happens for a reason, and this is the way I deal with my pain. I write about it. Success by no gregory happened overnight. By day he cooked, by night he sang in gay, and occasionally the two collided. One day he was catering for a party ahead of an important gig that evening. The pictures must be insane. At the unlikely age of almost 40, he finally found the limelight with his debut album Waterwinning himself not only a Grammy nomination but a reputation for bringing jazz back to the masses.

Is he sick of porter asking about it? Porter laughs. I feel comfy.