"When you talk to him and you're talking about music, you feel like you're talking to a musician, not a guy in a suit, " says David McPherson, an executive vice president at Sony who worked for Calder for four years.

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And, you know, during my interview, I actually was talking to him about the growing population, that census data that showed that white babies were no longer the majority.

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You know, I appreciate him going out, doing the town hall meetings and talking with voters, willing to take tough questions.

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