You might say, ahem, that his life got flipped turned upside down by an impromptu audition for the show at a party thrown by its producer Quincy Jones.
Though you're probably gonna want to hear it from the man himself before you start dazzling your mates with such Big Willy Style trivia. I might have just made that up for the sake of the intro...
So I was telling the truth. Thank God for that!