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Those women are the true divas. They're amazing performers, whom I've listened to for years. These are the people who've inspired me to sing, so it's flattering that I'm being compared to them. But I have a lot of hard work to do first.
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Access Hollywood, March 2008
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Regarding comparisons to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston

 

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