I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up doing musical theater.
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.
I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.
I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
I started out doing musicals.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.