top of page
.png){kind=small}
"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
Standard
Customized
More
"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances."
Music
"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
Holiday
"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
Father
"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
Experience
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
Artist
"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
Life
"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status."
Work
"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
Love
"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by."
Music
"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."
Goal
bottom of page