Why did jazmine sullivan retired

But I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that. JS: Well, I try not to force it. Pitchfork: You recently tweeted that you wanted voice lessons from Lalah Hathaway. What would you want her to teach you? JS: Probably breathing techniques. JS: No, I never really did! I mean, I did go to a performing arts high school [the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts] where we studied classical music.

And I enjoyed singing music together, learning all the parts. I did learn to sight-read. But you know, I was into other things. Pitchfork: Right! Is there anyone who has especially influenced your sense of timing? Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody. JS: It was hard. That song was the hardest to sing, because I was going through it [the breakup]. So I was basically like, "You can either let it overtake you and just not get the song done.

Or you can use it and put it in the song and be done with it. If I had stopped singing I might not have started again and would never have finished it. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. It was a private and restricted upbringing: Sullivan remembers only seeing other children at school, and spending much of her time at home watching Disney and making up stories to entertain herself. Whenever my dad was doing tours we kind of had to retreat, and we pretty much only came down to eat.

And usually the people on the tours were, you know, white people. And we had to hide and retreat up to the slave quarters! But my album is my reality show. That is the center for me, and for everybody. I think as you get older, you can kind of own it a little more. Let me tell you, my journey with my looks, it fluctuates like every other woman in the world.