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" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "

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" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "

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" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

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