I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.
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Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.
I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.
When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.
My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
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