I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

He has the nimbleness and fancy footwork of a prima ballerina.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.