First person Quote by Drake

Right after high school... the first time I ever recorded music was with a rapper, a friend of mine, and I would just be…

— Morgan Wallen

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family…

— Tracy Chapman

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different…

— Lecrae

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

— Julia Michaels

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I…

— William Singe

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry…

— Melissa Manchester

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh,…

— Yuna

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on…

— Rupert Holmes

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

— Big Freedia

Right from my first film, I've introduced several singers and lyricists to the industry.

— Vijay Antony