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Sheila E at Essence Festival on Friday, July 5.

Sheila E. talks back

June 26, 2019 by: Bill Forman

Sheila E. was just five years old when she took to the stage for the first time to accompany her father, the famed Latin percussionist Pete Escovedo and his band at a ballroom gig in New York City. “The cymbals vibrated through my body and the timbales shook my bones,” she writes in her 2014 memoir The Beat of My Own Drum, which chronicles the darkest and brightest moments of h...

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