I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
I used to be a great blues singer.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.
I got into singing when I was 6.
I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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