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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
Clive Sinclair
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Daughter
Husband
March
Poland
Singer
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Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that's a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.
Tom Junod
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Singing
Figure
Singer
Fully
Inherently
Ludicrous
Pitiable
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I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Singer-Songwriter
Singers
Wanted
Wells
Singer
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How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.
Mike Posner
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Singer
Fame
Song
Thrust
Shot
Blew
Singer
Lyric
Struggling
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
Bono
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Singer
Cnn
Confused
Months
Politician
Six
Starving
Talking
Thinking
Your People New
Album
Coming
Interviewer
Singer
Ok
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I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.
India Arie
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Banging
Hip Hop
Honey
Medicine
Music Soul People
Beat
Lover
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Message
Mixed
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I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.
Myles Kennedy
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Musician
Trust
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Instincts
Singer
Gotta
Mix
Mixer
Overall
Songwriter
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
Marvin Sapp
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Singer-Songwriter
Singing
Sunday
Pitch
Singer
Just Kind
Leading
Sang
Stood
Walked
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I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
Jessica Lucas
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Actress
Broadway
Momma
Singer
Seek
Musicals
Sing
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It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Actor
Actors
Lucky
Nice
Proof
Tremendous
Establish
Singer
Incredibly
Musicals
Piece
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'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
Lauren Velez
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Actress
Cuban
Done
Film
One Woman
Passion
Scene
Soul
Became
Show
Woman
First
Project
Singer
Queen
La
Raising
Story
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I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.
Louis Tomlinson
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Singer-Songwriter
American Music
Fans
Massive
Singers
Stuff
Acoustic
Ben
Ed Sheeran
Singer
James
Songwriter
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Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
Noel Gallagher
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Musician
Crazy
Fascination
Moved
Oasis
Shoes
Stage
Life Good Me
Singer
Lead
Lead Singer
Throw
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Cheerful
Excellent
Modest
Unassuming
Wire
Banjo
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Pair
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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Singer-Songwriter
Nashville
Best Me Song
Talented
Singer
Ten Times
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli
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Rapper
Beats
Collaboration
Instruments
Play
Solo
Writing
Good See Know
First Of All
Singer
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Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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Audience
Common
Common Ground
Opera
Poor
Rich
Secular
Customer
Customer Service
Democrats
Republicans
Singer
Legislator
Opera Singer
Service
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The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
Suzi Quatro
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Singer-Songwriter
Sister
Cradle
Kind
Nancy
Pleasure
Seekers
Singers
Writing
Younger Sister
Younger
Aside
Concentrated
Singer
Instrument
Lead Singer
Material
Stepped
Turned
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I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'
G-Dragon
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Rapper
Graduation
Astronaut
Diploma
Singer
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The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
Kathleen Battle
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Opera Singer
Art
Path
Singers
Life Best Art
Became
Set
First Place
Singer
Fulfill
Question
Reasons
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
M. Ward
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Singer-Songwriter
Adventure
Aspect
Guitar
Singing
Upbringing
Chord
Singer
Secondary
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I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
Nicole Scherzinger
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Recording Artist
Mum
Remember Me
Shy
Singer
Performer
Somehow
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I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.
Kim Shattuck
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Amazing
Sound
Voice
Wanted
Belt
Show
Crappy
Singer
Head
Hear
Sing
While
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In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
Beverly Sills
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Operatic Soprano
International
Metropolitan
Proud
Scene
Best Great Done
Singer
Proved
Revolutionized
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I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
Rita Coolidge
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Musician
People
Singers
Song
Me People Feel
Ballad
Me Song People
Float
Singer
Send
Shake
Shoulder
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
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Rapper
Acting
Care
Don't Care
Love You
Next
Singing
Song
Love Me Song
Love Me Singing
Love Me Care
Different Perspectives
Drop
Leave
Singer
Hand
Perspectives
Says
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
Sam Hunt
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Boundaries
Clothes
Liberating
Rebellious
Traditional
Music Know Country
Based
Country Music
Model
Singer
Music Country Know
Supposed
Ya
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I think Taeyang developed this image as a dancing singer, mostly because of records like 'Only Look At Me,' and 'Where U At.' To me, personally, I think Taeyang tried to make a change on 'I Need a Girl.' It gets a little mellower.
G-Dragon
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Rapper
Girl
Dancing
Records
Change Me Look
Developed
Change Look Me
Singer
Gets
Mostly
Personally
Tried
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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Singer-Songwriter
Running
Nashville
Song
Ten
Best Me Song
Talented
Singer
Ten Times
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When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.
Fka Twigs
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Singer-Songwriter
Genre
Months
Picture
Comments
Singer
Looked
Released
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Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.
Carmen Ejogo
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Film Actress
Harvey
Alternative
Bush
Singer
Great Songs
Require
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I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
Jennifer Lopez
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Actress
Dancer
Life Movies My Life
Perform
Singer
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Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
Rodney Crowell
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Musician
Cash
Country Singer
Five
Nelson
Favorite
Singer
Hank
Johnny
Williams
Willie Nelson
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That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!
Dolly Parton
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Singer-Songwriter
Fantastic
Montana
Love People Old
Elvis
Singer
Hannah
Realize
Songwriter
Writes
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Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.
Bryan Batt
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Actor
Comedian
Concerts
Actress
Palm
Bette
Dime
Emotions
Singer
Required
Switch
Viewing
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I come from the ghetto in Brazil, where we don't have a lot of career opportunities, so I'm sure my family and people who live there never imagined that one day I'd become a singer and be able to perform at an event like the Olympics.
Anitta
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Brazil
Ghetto
Olympics
Sure
Family Day People
Perform
Career
Event
Singer
Imagined
Opportunities
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When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.
Josh Turner
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Singer
Daddy
Home Myself Thinking
Singer
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As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Morrissey
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Dramatic
Noise
Notion
Small Child
Solitary
Spotlight
Swim
Walking
Beneath
Singer
Plank
Recorded
Sink
Willingly
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I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.
John Legend
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Singer-Songwriter
Talent
Ten
Time Experience Me
Singer
Met
Pass
Too Much Time
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
Al Jarreau
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Singer
Car
Dishes
Driving
Old Friends
Song
Washing
Entertained
Singer
Sing
Store
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I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on.
Lucy Hale
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Actress
Home Always I Am
Activities
Miss
Meant
Dances
Singer
Home I Am Always
Hang
Partake
Sacrificing
Some Things
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My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
Alexander Chee
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Fiction Writer
Ethnic Background
Fascinated
Scene
Singing
Sopranos
Voice
Background
Became
Unpopular
Ethnic
Singer
Rescued
Singing Voice
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
Hozier
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Musician
Happy
Broken
Holiday
Immaculate
Sadness
Voice
Touch
Ella
Fitzgerald
Singer
Her
Merciless
She
Sings
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I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
Taraji P. Henson
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Actress
Famous
Diana
Jazz
Summer
Seen
Cause
Diana Ross
Singer
Icon
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A lot of people at the highest level, I never listened to. It was hard for me to listen to a whole lot of stuff. It didn't get there for me. Al Green, who's maybe my favorite male singer - to me, Al Green sounds like a saxophone player.
Jaimoe
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Green
Player
Saxophone
Me People Never
Al
Green Me People
Male
Favorite
Singer
Highest Level
Listened
Sounds
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I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.
Twiggy
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Model
Boys
Broadway
Modelling
Musical
People
Thinking
Always People More
Since
Boy
Friend
Directed
People Always More
Singer
Suppose
Russell
Tommy
Tune
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I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.
Lulu
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Singer
American Music
Black
British
Elitist
Successful
Trying
Music Me More
Became
Before
Liked
Singer
Music Black Me
Pop
Pop Singer
Though
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As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.
Lachanze
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Resonating
Summer
Taught
Muscle
Naturally
Chambers
Forward
Singer
Front
Memory
Sang
Sing
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
Yuna
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Singer-Songwriter
Example
Houston
Jazz
Malaysia
Singing
Whitney
Songs
Name
Talented
For Example
Singer
Jazz Singer
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I was partnered with the singer Drew Lachey of the popular group 98 Degrees. Drew and I complemented each other with our strengths. I was good at dancing and teaching dance, and he was a good student and a natural-born ham for the cameras.
Cheryl Burke
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Professional Dancer
Dance
Cameras
Degrees
Ham
Student
Drew
Singer
Good Student
Group
Popular
Strengths
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