M:How did you get started in jazz singing?
W:It was a zigzag route. I went from country music to singing madrigals, to singing folk, to opera, and then to jazz. People kept offering me differ-ent projects, saying ' Well, I know that you have never done this before,so maybe you might not want to?' and I would say,' Oh, sure. I' ll try it. ' So I went from form to form, to form and that is how.
M: Are you going to keep moving around or are you stuck on jazz singing now?
W : I think jazz is where I' m going to stay. I feel the most comfortable here,I have the most freedom here.
M :When were the sessions for this album originally done?
W:The session was done in Sept. of 1998 we mixed it down the second week of October, and nothing was done with it. I was busy for five and half years in a life of death battle with a portion of the government' a le-gal battle' that I had. So I had to drop everything to deal with it.
M:Does anyone in your family have a musical background?
W: I was brought up in a family that had an awful lot of musicians, and none of them took anything I was doing very seriously at all. I was actually the family joke. I just did this music to get it out of my system. I did not expect anyone to pay much attention to it. I, just knew that I had to say it.
M : Thanks for talking with us, best wishes for your career.
W :Thank you!