Kamala Harris is a big fan of music.
The Democratic presidential candidate participated in the music game Track Star, where she had to guess a song for a few seconds from its instrumental, winning money for each correct answer. Harris readily recognized a song by Stevie Wonder, whom she called “one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. […] He's a songwriter, he's a poet, he's very active in social justice issues, and he's actually a friend.”
Harris also admitted that due to her schedule lately, as she prepares for the presidential election, “this is probably the most music I've heard in a long time.” He continued: “Both my parents loved music. It was part of my childhood. We went to bed with them playing music all the time.”
He concluded by noting that the song everyone should know is Roy Ayers Ubiquity's 1976 hit, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” She admitted: “It's one of my favorite songs.”
Harris recently sat down with her VP of choice, Tim Walz, for a wide-ranging conversation where they mentioned the music that shaped their lives. For Walz, it started with Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album The Riverwhich he called a “transformative piece of music” for him. He also shared his love for Bob Seger. “My first car was in the summer of 1980 and I was saving money. I'm buying an orange 1973 Chevy Camaro,'” he recalls. “I have an eight-piece player in it. The previous owner left Bob Seger's Nocturnal movements in there I listened to it and it is the soundtrack of my life. […] What's really great about it is I have a '79 international that is my car and it has an eight track player on it. I have a maximum of eight pieces to date.”
Harris added that while Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis and John Coltrane were the main players in her family's home, one of her “personal favorite musicians” is Minnesota Prince. “My husband Doug and I — I'm more of a hip-hop girl and he's more of a Depeche Mode,” she shared. “However, in the Venn diagram of things, the Prince and I love the same. Talk about what Prince was like with that guitar, man. I almost know all these songs by heart.”
