I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was…

I've lived in L.A., Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati but New York is the best.

— Soupy Sales

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people.…

— Boots Riley

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What…

— Susan Egan

Once upon a time, I loved Carole King. I grew up listening to her.

— Brett Cooper

I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on…

— Hope Partlow

I grew up listening to all types of music.

— Sheck Wes

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on…

— Quavo

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I…

— Kate Voegele

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown,…

— Saweetie

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

— Keith Whitley

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my…

— Mark Wahlberg

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in…

— Avicii

I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by…

— Lotic

I grew up listening to all music, not just country.

— Mickie James