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My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

Everybody sung in my family.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

I sang in choir as a kid.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

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.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.