When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.
I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.
Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
I got into singing when I was 6.