I think my mom just checked out at a certain point. 'And then as soon as I got better, my sister had arthritis in her knees, so then she started going to the doctor every week. I had this really rare blood disorder as a kid, so she had to take me to the doctor every single week,' Divinity recalls. Divinity's first instrument was clarinet.īut when she was in middle school, her mother started doing drugs. She's been playing music since she was a little girl, and spent a lot of time with her uncle who played bass and saxophone. go out there and be something in the world and you got to be prepared.' Channeling her mom's energy, Divinity says, 'The lyrics are just about being prepared for your day, because preparation is the key to success.'ĭivinity Roxx was plenty prepared when she auditioned for Beyoncé, but getting to that point in her career wasn't always easy.

'And you got to make opportunities for yourself and. 'She would give us a sermon every morning about how it was time to get up and why we were going to school,' Divinity recalls.

Weekday mornings were upbeat at the Atlanta home of little Debbie Walker, the future Divinity Roxx.

The title track of Ready, Set, Go is the ultimate morning jam, with its aerobic tempo and rhymes like 'Put that pep in your step, put that pride in your stride.' She set out to write 'a jam that's appropriate for a five year old, that makes them feel good about being alive, and makes them think about life in a different way.' 'A lot of times they're listening to adult music, and these concepts are too mature for them, and I don't like to hear them singing some of these lyrics,' she says. From start to finish, her new album, Ready, Set, Go, is about positivity in mind and body.ĭivinity says that as she was writing the album, she thought 'about the kid inside of me,' as well as her nieces and nephews. Divinity Roxx, best known for playing bass in Beyoncé's all female band, is making her mark on the family music scene.

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