He was booed when he walked on-stage with an acoustic guitar, but when the Apollo audience heard his gritty falsetto and lyrical songwriting, they were swayed - swayed to the tune of five amateur-night victories in a row. He had only a month of freedom before he was on-stage at the famous Apollo. The day after that, he was performing live in a club. Two days after his December 2002 release from prison, he recorded a four-song demo CD. Prison made his music deeper, according to Lyfe, and when a copy of Erykah Badu's Baduizm ended up in his cell in 1997, he was inspired and had the feeling that this introspective edge to his music was worth developing. His musical aspirations started in the church choir and grew up in the Dotsons, a teenage group that Lyfe formed with his brother and a couple cousins. It was an arson charge that put the Toledo, Ohio native in prison.
Not that he'd wish it on anyone, but it was during his ten-year sentence in prison that Lyfe Jennings developed his honest sound, thanks to isolation and Erykah Badu.
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