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I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

— Justin Bieber

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

— Sam Barry

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

— Heather Dubrow

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

— Minnie Driver

I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.

— Armaan Malik

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

— Gloria Estefan

In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.

— Rain

✗Opposing Perspectives

The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.

— Erik Hassle

I started singing because I come from Wales.

— Bryn Terfel

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

— Jayma Mays