“Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.”

American former professional boxer

Michael Anthony Grant is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2017. He is known for boxing in the heavyweight division and for challenging once for the unified WBC, IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles in 2000. In 1999, he held the NABF heavyweight title at regional level. His career is marked by that title run and his later challenge for world heavyweight honors.