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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.