Joan Osborne I met her when she was just gigging around Manhattan. She started singing because she went to an open mic thing and the owner said you have to come back. She would join friends of mine on stage and do a song with them. Got to be friends with her on the local music scene. We always talked if we were at the same venue. And then she became famous. Great person, great voice just a natural. She fell into her career just having fun in Manhattan.