All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
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My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
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.
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.
My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.
I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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