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I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

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.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I'm always dancing in my kitchen. And I love to sing. I've always sung. My father was a lovely singer. Always sang Jim Reeves at parties.

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

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.

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.