 My name is Jan Nigro and I am Laura Nero's little brother. I want to welcome all of you to this evening of celebration of Laura's life and her glorious music. I've been playing her music. It's in my bones. You know, it's like this deep emotional like, you know, getting caught up in like the waves of soul and the extended chord, you know, it's just the richness. Laura had, was really a poet as well as a musician. Not everybody, in fact, very few people can do both. We grew up in the Bronx. Our mother was a bookkeeper and our father was a trumpet player, professional trumpet player. And there was always a lot of music going on in our apartment. 1968 was actually a pretty bad year for the country. There was civil unrest and racial tension and the assassination of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy. And Laura in response wrote a song of hope. Technically her chords on the piano were chords I never heard before. That she just seemed to have no, no restraints on her voice and her playing. And she was just wild sounding, you know. I know Joni Mitchell, of course, was her friend and said, you could lump me in with her. And she never complimented anybody. High voice, it just had this siren, this like siren soaring, like pressing against a wall with your like vision, your like third eye, like coming out at you like this. And the day time, the night time and the day time.