Marcus Miller: Renaissance Man article by Pheralyn Dove, published on December 4, 2012 at All About Jazz. ... Sage words indeed, from a musical master who has obviously taken his own advice: a true-to ...

Miller was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and was initiated at a young age into black consciousness. His grandfather was a close associate of Marcus Garvey, one of the founding fathers of Pan-Africanism.