Incredibly, Mahogany says he didn't sing much in high school because his school was so inundated with good singers that he was intimidated.
Mahogany says, "I started focusing more on singing and realized that instrumentally, I had reached a plateau that was not necessarily meant for me to overcome." Ultimately, he decided to focus entirely on singing.
Mahogany recently had a role in director Robert Altman's Kansas City (a film titled after Mahogany's home town), which is about that town's hey day as a key center in the development of jazz.
Mahogany put together his promotional pack, met the record producer, told him he would like to sing bop, ballads and bluesy jazz, and then left to prepare for his plane ride back to Kansas City.
It was also from being impressed with Mahogany's performance at a local club that Frank Mantooth asked the vocalist to record with his band that same winter in Chicago.
Mahogany's recent success stemming from these kinds of encounters comes as no surprise to local jazz fans, many of whom are wowed by his powerful, deep baritone voice.
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