H.E.R. Still Finds Inspiration in Prince and 'Martin' My Ten July 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE ?‘ The singer-wongwriter H.E.R. (Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson) at an event in New York on March 8, 2019. As H.E.R.?•s star rises, so has her awareness as a role model. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)KRISTA SCHLUETER/NYT H.E.R. doesn’t want her music to be boxed in. “When I was creating it, I wasn’t really aiming for anything,” the singer-songwriter-instrumentalist said of “Back of My Mind,” her new 21-track album. “But when I started sequencing it and putting it together, I realized that a lot of the songs that I created were different moods of R&B.”