Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
I was born and raised in Detroit.
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.