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

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

I was the singing boy in school.

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.