Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
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I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald are my musical mothers. I learned everything I know about true R&B, pop and jazz singing from these stunning performers and unparalleled musicians.
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