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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Al Jarreau

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Al Jarreau
Age: 76 †
Born: 1940
Born: March 12
Died: 2017
Died: February 12
Jazz Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Social Worker
Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Alwin Jarreau
Alwyn Lopez Jarreau
Alwin Lopez Al Jarreau
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Ballads
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Lyric
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Message
Littles
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Knowingness
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Ballad

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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.
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I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, Uh-uh, I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.
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That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him, and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, When is Al coming back?
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.
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