..Tia’s students are grateful to have her as a mentor and will be routing for her on Sunday. “It’s amazing. It’s crazy,” said Marcus Prince, a steel pan player who says he started listening to Tia’s music years before having her as a professor.
BOSTON (CBS) – She’s a saxophonist, professor at Berklee College of Music and a former member of Beyonce’s all-female band. When you meet Tia Fuller, her personality is just as bright as her resume. If she takes home a statue on Sunday, she’ll be only the second woman ever to win for best jazz instrumental album.
When it comes to rising to the top of a male-dominated industry, Tia says she owes a lot to Queen B. “Playing with Beyonce was transformational for me. Not only as a musician but as a woman… especially a woman of color,” she said.
Tia told us she’ll never forget the conversations with her fellow band members on that first day of rehearsal. “Once we started talking, saying, ‘This feels weird because we are always used to being the only woman in the band, but here we are,’” she recalled.
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