My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
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When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.
I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.
We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.