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Profession: Musician
Nationality: English
Birthday: January 29, 1932

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We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

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Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

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I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

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I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

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My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.

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If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.

Yandel

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On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

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I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

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I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

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With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

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I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

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I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

Morena Baccarin

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Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.

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I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.

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