Despite not recording any music until he was in his 30s, Bobby McFerrin had already spent half a decade honing a quite striking craft. He wanted a sound unlike anybody else’s, refraining from listening to any other singers for two whole years. For this concert, at the Munich Summer Piano Festival in 1988, we see Bobby at a very special moment in his career, just before everything changed. Indeed, a few months after this performance, he would release "Don’t Worry, Be Happy," a track that got to N

Today on our Digital Stage: On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, watch as vocalist Bobby McFerrin improvises a choral work LIVE with help from the Let Freedom Ring Choir during our annual concert celebrating King's legacy. Watch extraordinary performances daily: digitalstage.kennedy-center.org | The Trump Kennedy Center