My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.