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" From the May 2013 issue For the Uninitiated: He calls them his &amp;quot;Four Kings&amp;quot; \u2014 Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr. \u2014 and in this songwriter, Grammy-winning solo artist, dancer, and actor, their influence is easy to spot. His latest album, R.E.D., features perhaps the lushest valentine of his career, &amp;quot;Let Me Love You.&amp;quot; On Dancing: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a natural. I had to teach myself \u2014 or be taught \u2014 everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.&amp;quot; On Samme, et al,: &amp;quot;I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip. She brought home the Rat Pack stuff. Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let&amp;#039;s just say it, it wasn&amp;#039;t very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.&amp;quot; On the Big Moment: &amp;quot;Early on, I was at a festival in Japan \u2014 eighty thousand people. My first song was &amp;#039;So Sick,&amp;#039; which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music. No barriers exist. Age. Race. Language. A great song \u2014 that trumps everything else.&amp;quot; Above: Cotton cardigan ($980) and cotton trousers ($750) by Bottega Veneta; leather monk-straps ($675) by O&amp;#039;Keeffe; cotton-and-silk scarf ($425) by Burberry London; hat by Hollywood Hatters. Next: Wiz Khalifa Also from the May 2013 issue&amp;#039;s music portfolio:  Hunter Hayes Fitz and the Tantrums Gary Clark Jr.   Above: Wool shirt ($570) and mohair trousers ($835) by Prada; leather shoes ($415) by Grenson.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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