Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she's also a singer.
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.
I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.
I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.
I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.
I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.
I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
