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I'm not a jazz singer.
I want to be the jazz singer.
One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means.
I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.
I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's people who would hear what I do and say, 'Is it jazz? I don't know...' Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.
I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people do; I also know that a lot of other people act like I do. And better than I do. But what informs the singing is the acting. They're not separate from each other.
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me.
Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.