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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

My life is to sing.

I can't imagine life without singing.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.