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“With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important.”

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Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins, born on October 1, 1978, is a renowned figure in an unknown field. Her personal history and achievements are not well-documented. more

“I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. I didn't have one of those creepy stage moms that made me do stuff. I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.”

Age Mom Singing Performing Creepy

Author:Alex Winston

“I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.”

Kids Girl College Music Is Going To College

Author:Alex Winston

“I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.”

Real Community College First Time Real Life Adulthood Community College

Author:Alex Winston

“I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.”

Moving Adulthood

Author:Alex Winston

“I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Thinking Reason Get Away Just Listen

Author:Alex Winston

“I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.”

Kind Creative Identity Singing Be Creative Crescendo

Author:Alex Winston

“The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.”

Influence Proud Motown Stooges

Author:Alex Winston

“I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. I feel like as I grew older, I've been working with different musicians, people that have are constantly showing me different things.”

People Different Listening Musician Jerry Chuck Motown Stooges

Author:Alex Winston

“I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.”

Country Strong Female Strong Female

Author:Alex Winston

“I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.”

Hate Forever Musician I Hate

Author:Alex Winston

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