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If it's good music, it's got my attention and respect! When I first started singing and performing, I was really big into show tunes (which I still love) and then I moved on to creating a one-hour jazz show. At this point I couldn't get enough of big band music and I listened to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and the other soulful singers of that era. Every night, my mom and dad would, at my request, put the music of Ella, Louis Armstrong and the other Jazz greats on and I went to sleep singing along. I'm so thankful for their influence on me, as I am to the great female singers of today Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion to name a few. I have a fierce hunger to create great music, to communicate by song, and aspire to be like these outstanding artists of the world. I am fortunate that I work with phenomenal musicians and singers who totally understand this passion.