Justine Skye Quotes

I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.

I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved 'One In A Million.' That was my jam.

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.

From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.

I love Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Usher, Mariah Carey... all that stuff.

I'm, for real, the biggest En Vogue fan.

I miss all of the singing from the '90s; I miss groups. There are no groups like Jagged Edge and SWV or Brownstone.

When I was little, I used to listen to Lauryn Hill, so that's that hip-hop and R&B influence in me.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

I'm not exclusively into R&B. I like Usher.

I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She's Swedish, so she loves pop music.

You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

My heart is always listening to the music I grew up with from the '70s and '80s to early '90s.

I grew up listening to Dolly Parton and just loving her music.