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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rich Pelley

Sunday with Gregory Porter: ‘I compete with my wife over barbecued pork ribs’

Gregory Porter, smiling, wearing a black cap
‘We may play a game of smacking the tennis ball over the tree. I haven’t busted any windows yet'’: Gregory Porter. Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images

Sunday mornings? Our three-month-old boy is up at 6.30am and our eight-year-old son loves to jump in our bed. I’m a lounger, but I’m very conscious that Sunday is a day to spend with family.

Sundays growing up? My mother was a minister, so Sunday mornings were quite an event, getting eight kids ready to go to church. There is a particular smell of black hair being straightened with a hot comb heated on the fire in the kitchen that reminds me of all my sisters getting ready for Sunday school.

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