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I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.