Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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