I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.
All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
Aretha Franklin, she's just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers that I just loved and sang along to on the radio. I guess I just enjoy trying out different styles along the way.
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