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Del Shannon and Ricky Nelson, my older sister's music, when the Beatles hit the scene and within a couple years there was an explosion of really cool music as I reached my teens. The 60s were quite the time for electric music and I was riding the crest of the wave as a young teen. Before that I was studying classical voice and it was absolutely sacrilege to mix the two and that included folk and anything not made for the symphony. I rebelled and found jazz and bluegrass along the way. Now I'm older and I will sing anything that is done well structurally and sounds good. And trying to learn a stringed instrument... 
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