In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.
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 didn't sing, but I did play the drums.
Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.
I sang in choir as a kid.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.