HF: Congratulations on publishing your book A for Aretha. How did this come about?
LK: Thank you, I am very proud of the book. It began in quite a natural way when I was with my youngest niece, who was four years old (and very sassy). She was being disrespectful to her brother, and I was telling her to respect him by singing Aretha's Respect. That put the idea of a children's book on Black female composers into my mind, so I combed the internet and there was nothing out there. It seemed horrendous that a gap like that existed, so I put pen to paper and that is how A for Aretha was born.
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