Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
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I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was a little girl. Improvisation was with me from the beginning. It drove my parents crazy. I would sing all the time. To anything. Television show themes. I loved to imitate the sounds.Cassandra Wilson
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
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There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
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They wanted us to sit down, but there wasn't a place to sit down. The place was so small you could stand in the middle and touch everything. They must have slept sitting up on the couch.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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