To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
It started in Georgia. Everyone sings there. I mean, it's all they do. So at eight, I heard a lot of Georgian singing, which is often really complicated, with seven- or eight-part harmonies.
Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.
I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
My father started me singing in church.
My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.
We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!
My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.
I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.
I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.
There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
I knew that I wanted to sing right from the age of four, and till I was 16, I only sang at Mata ki Chowkis.
I only sang bhajans from 4 to 16 years.
My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.
Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.
My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.
