Background Quote by Merry Clayton

Before I even got signed as a teen, I was singing with people like Hoyt Axton and Mickey Gilley. I worked with Jerry Lee…

— Tiffany Darwish

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963.…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows…

— Verite

Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.

— Neil Sedaka

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That…

— Jon Pardi

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously,…

— Cyndi Lauper

I started my band when I was 13 years old. We were a real band.

— Matty Healy

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school,…

— Lapsley

I was 18 when I signed my first record contract and in those days fame was a lot of fun.

— Martin Kemp

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha…

— Ernie Isley

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

— Sara Evans

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

— Lisa Stansfield