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I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I've always sung. My dad had a song in his heart and on his lips 24/7. A lot of the time, it was the same song and the same phrase over and over again.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.