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I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

I came up in gospel.

Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.