[in 2001 interview] I sang all my life. My parents had me singing around the house when I
was younger. I'm not from a showbiz family or anything. It's just
something I enjoyed doing. When I started getting into seventh or
eighth grade, I became part of the theater program. I went to L.A. County
High School for the Arts and did more singing there. It's really
something I did on the side and then I met
David Foster. I was working
with a voice teacher who was a friend of the family's. David . . .
called him and told him he needed a singer for an event he was doing.
That's how that started.
