Lizz Wright doesn’t fit into an easy category

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AP: You grew up as a preacher’s kid, and your dad forbade you from listening to secular music. Has he accepted your career now?

Wright: We are so close now. He really understands what I’m going for and he and my mother are very supportive. And they love the record. ... We all have opened up and changed a lot as a family.

AP: Some have questioned your new direction. Do you feel as a black singer, there’s an expectation for you to do more soulful music?

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Wright: People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker, and some of it is who I am and some of it is who I’ve become ... (So) why not? If it’s really what I like, why not? I’m not angry. I can’t sing that loud for that long anyway, I’ll start coughing — I don’t have the instrument for it. I don’t feel that emotional. I’m at peace.

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