When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.
All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
I sing the songs that people need to hear.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.