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My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

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.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

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.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

I come from a musical kind of family.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.