Dad Quote by Ari Lennox

I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them.

— Jessica Mauboy

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had…

— Dominic Chianese

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a…

— Melanie Fiona

Since I was five years old, when my mom was still alive, she would just call me. And we would listen to the radio…

— Arnel Pineda

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the…

— Kimiko Glenn

My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also…

— Denzel Curry

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they…

— LaToya London

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.

— Jessica Simpson

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low…

— Johnny Cash

My dad had a big CD collection that I would rummage through. I fell in love with powerful female vocalists: Alicia Keys, Billie Holiday,…

— Raye

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been…

— Mark Lanegan