Applause Quote by Laura Mvula

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

— Darius Rucker

A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang…

— Mahalia Jackson

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

— Dolly Parton

My mum said I used to sing on the bus. I was about five and would simply sit, staring out of the window, singing…

— Paul Young

I started singing when I was younger in church, took some time off, then came back and sang as an adult on my church…

— Porsha Williams

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

— Paul Lynde

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

— Gloria Estefan

I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched…

— Al Jarreau

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

My father started me singing in church.

— DeForest Kelley

My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was…

— Marianne Faithfull