For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.