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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

My music is jazz.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.