only way i can explain it. he had a beautiful voice and i didn't actually realise that most americans would have known this, but i didn't realise that he had his caribbean accident all of his life until i moved to britain and i realise that's what i was hearing because he always had this incredible voice with the way he enunciated and so come of course, it was a caribbean accent and we didn't know this. so, he set the bar so high that no 1's actually ever gone over it yet. and denzel washington acknowledges this with by beautiful fluke in 2002, sidney poitier was given a lifetime achievement award and denzel washington also won the oscar for training day and he acknowledged what a lot of us felt that we are all of us in culture, the arts and beyond, we are in his footsteps and he left a mighty big legacy for