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I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

I sang in choir as a kid.

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'