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My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, Put that thing off and put my damn record on. So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.

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Solange Knowles
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: June 24
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I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.
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I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.
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