My singing teacher, Brian Powers Smith, and I!
He is immensely musically talented. He's a pianist, organist and former tenor in the Opéra de Montréal. He's been the music director at my church for almost 50 years. He is being forced to retire this January.
He's taught me everything I know about music, and I owe any future musical career to him. He's always been much too kind to me.