He’s an extraordinary bass player, music director, composer, producer, and author of There’s No Traffic on the Extra Mile. He was the musical director and bandleader on The Tonight Show w Jay Leno from 2010 to 2014. Minor worked as musical director
for American Idol. Minor has served as musical director for numerous superstar tours, including Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Ray Charles, Alicia Keys, and Beyoncé, and for television productions, including the Grammy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and the Super Bowl. He has received 13 Primetime Emmy Award nominations
for Outstanding Music Direction, winning 2 of them, for Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America (2017) and The Kennedy Center Honors (2020), but our favorite attribute is this – he’s our friend, and we go back a long way!