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The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

Jillian Hervey

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Jillian Hervey
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: June 19
Actor
Dancer
Singer
LA
California
Jillian Kristin Hervey
Women
Thing
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Individuals
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I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.
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Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.
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I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.
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This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.
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As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.
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I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.
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Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.
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Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.
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I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.
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Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.
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I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.
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South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.
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Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.
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The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.
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Obviously, this is our first album [Begin], so this is our first big body of work that's out there in the world and it really represents our journey, from where we started to now and all the music we created, our range, and all the things that we definitely shared, but weren't able to show our range on a full-scale until this album.
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Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.
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[My mom] put me in dance class when I was really young just as a thing to do and I loved it. I remember being excited every time I went, no matter how tired I was - it was the one thing that I always liked doing.
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I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.
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In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.
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You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.
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