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I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

I grew up with a wide range of music.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I grew up listening to old soul.

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.