Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

She did not stay long. Peter Watrous in an article for the New York Times states: ". She graduated with a degree in mass communications.

Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country blues and folk music into her work Wilson has won two Grammy Awards.