My Children Come First And The Career

I Majored In Fashion Design In School, And I Have Always Wanted To Design My Own Line Of Clothing, Jewelry, And Stuff Like That; So This Was Just A Step For Me In That Direction.

You Can't Just Sit There And Wait For People To Give You That Golden Dream. You've Got To Get Out There And Make It Happen For Yourself.

I'm From A Singing Family, But They're Not Professional Singers, Only Gospel - My Grandfather Was A Minister. I Started To Sing The Music That Was Out Then Because My Mother Used To Play It All The Time. It Was The End Of The '50s, The Beginning Of The '60s. There Was Frankie Lyman And The Teenagers, Etta James... We Used To Sit Outside On The Stoop And Sing. We Even Used To Put Our Radios And Record Players Outside.

I Look Forward To The Future - And Going Into The Studio To Make New Music.

The Only Recording Studio Was In Motown - It Was Called Tamla/motown At That Time And We Used To Audition There Because Smokey Robinson Was At That Studio And Berry Gordy Was The President. I Remember Asking Smokey To Listen To My Group And He Did. For The First Couple Of Years We Were Just Singing Background. We Used To Back Up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells Was There Then, Marv Johnson, The Marvelettes, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, Junior Walker And The All-stars.