Campaign Widows by Aimee Agresti

Author:Aimee Agresti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graydon House Books
Published: 2018-03-29T15:21:29+00:00

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LESS CALIFORNICATION, MORE CALIFORNIA DREAMING

HOME IS WHERE THE VOTES ARE?

ROCKY HAZE RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA,

KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

By Sky Vasquez, Staff Writer, The Queue

Alchemy, attired in yoga clothes, is finishing up a morning workout with daughter Harmony in their sprawling family home in Brentwood. Harmony sings along to the track, working on her impressive downward dog. Not everyone gets to do their morning sweat session to a Grammy winner’s highly anticipated new album, but this toddler already knows the words to daddy’s newest tunes. Something to the Imagination, the follow-up to the R&B star’s Magic, Billboard’s best-selling album of 2014 (Rocky Haze’s Hazy Shade of Summer was No. 1 a year later), was due to drop this week, reviews had already begun to post online (among them raves from Rolling Stone, the New York Times and, yes, NPR) until he pulled it at the last minute.

“Listen,” he says with a smile, feeding chunks of star fruit to Harmony in their bright and airy kitchen. “Our family is focused on Rocky right now. When Magic came out, she stopped everything for me, everything, to allow me to tour without being away. Because I didn’t want to have to leave her and our baby. We personally work better when we devote ourselves to each other’s dreams.” He says it easily, as though it were all obvious. “I want to be able to give my whole self to my music and right now I need to be here, part of this dream, her dream. What’s good for one of us is good for all of us.” Their secret to familial bliss is simple: “We just juggle. Like any family in America. We juggle. Some days better than others.” And when they do need to make those tough decisions? “We just play, ‘Rocky Paper Scissors,’” he jokes.

He and Harmony put on their Sunday best and pile into the awaiting Escalade to join Rocky downtown. The candidate has spent weeks canvassing the Golden State, visiting inner cities, churches, homeless shelters, prisons, meeting with young and old, big potential donors (from Hollywood producers to record label honchos) and those who have nothing. “I want to paint myself a full picture of what’s going on in every state in this great nation,” she says. “I want to know firsthand what people need to make their lives better. And then I want to gather the greatest minds to work with me and make those lives better.”

With the primary that will decide her fate just days away, Haze has allowed herself a more lighthearted day today: a rally on Santa Monica Pier. A stage is set as though for any other concert here as fans, voters and tourists alike crowd the strip, spilling into the sand, a sea of people forming. After riding the carousel and Ferris wheel together, posing for hundreds of selfies and ditching their shoes (and her heeled booties) to dip their toes in the ocean, the family of three is ready for showtime.

“I have the best fans in the world,” Haze greets the crowd.

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