This episode features a conversation with multi-instrumentalist Gerry Gillespie. Gerry has performed with iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Stanley Turrentine, Ronnie Laws and Erykah Badu. Our conversation covers his early beginnings in music, his thoughts on his UDC (University of the District of Columbia) experience, his views on gifted-musicians responsibility to learn their craft, and his battle with kidney failure and the impact it has had on his music.