A young lady who had been singing background for Ms. Knight for about four years informed me that there might be a chance Ms. Knight’s music director was looking for new singers. They were gearing up to do a 30 city tour and would be filling the position fast, if at all. However, the source never actually asked me to audition. She knew that I was a songwriter-vocal producer via us being friends on social media and figured I’d know who to reach out to about the gig. I told a few friends to send me audition tapes, but none of them did. Then I had what Oprah calls an ” Aha Moment.” I said to myself, “Avehre, you can sing a little bit, why don’t you just audition yourself?” After mustering up the confidence to record and send in my audition tape, I got word back that there was interest and flew to Las Vegas for an in person audition with The Empress of Soul herself. A few days later I was hired and started touring with Ms. Knight the very next week!