Today we bring our latest digital edition, a special featuring the artist H.E.R. The 23-year two-time Grammy winner discusses songwriting and her new FenderĀ® Signature Stratocaster. As the first female black artist to be honored with a signature model guitar, she discusses the importance of learning music at a young age.
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“I picked up a guitar when I was seven years old and learned a blues pentatonic scale,” she says. “I remember being nine in the grocery store with my mom and āBoogie Oogie Oogieā by A Taste Of Honey came on and she was like āyou should learn this!ā”
Download the digital edition, presented by Fender, here or click the photo below.