Band Quote by R. Kelly

My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll. Whenever he…

— Sam Fender

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

— Ruben Blades

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

— Len Cariou

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni…

— Alanis Morissette

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

— Charley Pride

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were…

— Johnny Winter

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the…

— Kara DioGuardi

I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums…

— Hozier

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my…

— Chris Burke

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

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we…

— Paul Weller

My dad was a real working musician in the late '70s and early '80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and…

— Weyes Blood