My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
I always knew I wanted to be in a band.
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.
I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.