Kamala Harris visited a Washington, D.C. record store and responded to a reporter by asking, “Do you know music?” She then taught a brief lesson on Charles Mingus and showed a bright yellow record jacket. The record was Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s 1976 album “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” The album received R&B and jazz radio airplay but did not become a major mainstream hit, peaking at No. 51 on the Billboard charts. The title track, however, endured for decades through its hypnotic, soothing energy and memorable chorus. The narrator connects the song to personal history, identifying Roy Ayers as their biological father and describing the song as a constant presence across their life.
"But my phone didn't blow up that day because of a classic song. It was because Roy Ayers - the bearded man with an Afro on the album cover - was my biological father. Roy and I met only a handful of times during the 53 years between my birth in January 1972 and his death in March 2025. “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” on the other hand, has been with me the entire time."
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