Gregory Porter pays homage to his hero, Nat King Cole

WHEN Gregory Porter arrived at San Diego State University on a football scholarship in the early 1990s, the first thing he did was seek out his new dorm room and âchristenâ it by playing his favourite artist at maximum volume.
âI was the only one there and I put on Nat King Cole. Iâm blasting âThe Song of Raintree Countyâ and everyone else comes in and goes âwhat is THIS?â They were listening to Color Me Badd, A Tribe Called Quest, a lot of hip hop. They thought it was cool I had my own thing that they had never heard of.â