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My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

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.

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.