"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives."
"Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin."
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Source: Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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