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I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
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I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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I'm grateful for the fans who've been there from the beginning and am excited about how we've grown and how we've evolved now.
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I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.
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I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
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As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.
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For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.
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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
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I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'
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My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.
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I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.
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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
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I'm grateful and enjoying the ride.