"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

Parents

"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."

Love

"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."

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"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."

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