Grammy Award-winning “Queen of Percussion” Sheila E. joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about her “glamorous life” and career and much more on the Season 8 finale of “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
The daughter of legendary (and according to her, “best dressed”) Latin jazz percussionist Pete Escovedo, Sheila said she grew up in the most “musical family” with an “extensive vinyl collection.” As she told Womack, “My dad practiced every single day. There were always jam sessions with percussion players and entire bands in my living room . . . It was a normal thing. My siblings and I didn’t realize it was cool until we were teens,” she said with a laugh.
