I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.
I was 15 when I started making music properly.
When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.
When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.
I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.
I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.
In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.
I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.
I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.
My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.
I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
