On the Cook In Her Family
“My mother was always the cook.
Whatever I learned in cooking, I learned from her…
I learned how to make banana pudding and chicken fried steak.
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I take her recipes and I kind of add a little bit of my own flair to them.”
On Growing Up Around Music
“My sister and I were the only singers.
My dad always told me, you know, Tanya, you got two problems.
He said, one of them is that you’re a girl.
And the other one is, you’re a 9-year-old girl.
A lot of great talent has been inside those walls.
That’s the thing: they’ve kept us going, kept me going when nothing was going.
And I think it’s payback time.
I think it’s time that we support them.
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