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Growing up, I became a huge fan of Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins. That's where I really started developing my songwriting skills on…

— Lara Fabian

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 was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons.…

— Emmylou Harris

I started as a guitarist and couldn't find a decent singer, so I started providing my own vocals.

— Billy Squier

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

— Emily Saliers

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

— Skylar Laine

When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant…

— Kelela

I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's…

— King Krule

My biggest breakthrough was discovering that I could write my own riffs.

— Max Cavalera

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

For the first couple of records that I made I just tried to sing like Hank Williams, you know, because I liked his things…

— Porter Wagoner

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

— Wanda Jackson