Friday, January 3, 2014 12:17pm ET by  
Comments (0)

, , , , , , , , , ,

Sky Ferreira: 'Michael Jackson was my mentor'

Songstress Sky Ferreira has confessed that the late Michael Jackson was a big influence on her growing up because she spent a lot of time around him as a youngster. 

She told Britain's The Guardian newspaper that her grandmother was a close friend of the icon's so she was often at his house:

"She (my grandmother) went everywhere with him, so I was always around him and his kids. I had birthdays there, I sang gospel music for him - he was kind of my mentor, so he influenced me, but more as a friend than as Michael Jackson, the pop star."

Ferreira also opened up about the King of Pop's tragic death back in 2009, adding that it was tough to go through but she has such great memories of him that at times it feels like he's still around:

"Everything just kinda stopped, it was the first death I'd ever experienced. But sometimes something will remind me of him and I feel a lot better."

 

 

 

 

 

Watch her music video for 'You're Not The One' below: