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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I got into singing when I was 6.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

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

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

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.