Eva ZarAfter years of struggle, Ari Lennox is now enjoying success and on the road, opening for Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You Too tour. But she still remembers performing at open mic shows, where she was booed for singing Beyonce‘s hit, “Love On Top.”
“I was like, ‘No one should sing Beyoncé other than Beyoncé,’” she tells Rolling Stone.
But it was another superstar who Lennox credits as her biggest inspiration.
“Something about Mariah Carey’s songs really had me wanting to sing high like her,” the Washington D.C. native says. “I remember just feeling like a girly princess in the house, just dancing and singing my heart out to reach those
