If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.