When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.
I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.