"I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio."

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"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."

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"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

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