I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.
Both of my parents were musicians.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Our parents were musicians.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.