I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.