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"I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

"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."

"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."

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