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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

I got into singing when I was 6.