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This is from the current issue of TV Guide. I'm sorry I can't provide a link, but the story is only in the magazine, not on the website. It's called Talent Runs in the Family and it's about each of the Top 10 Idols and where they get their musical roots from. The one about Paris cracked my ass up (and you have to see the photo of her and the family dressed in daishikis)
'Paris reminds me of me,' says grandma Ann Nesby, a three-time Grammy winner with the family gosepl group Sounds of Blackness. 'She has no fear when it comes to singing.'
Paris' musical roots run deep, says Ann. 'Both my grandmothers were gospel singers. And my mother [Shirley Bennet] can sing a Mahalia Jackson song that makes you cringe in your shoes.'
Then there's Paris' mom, Jamecia Bennett. At 17, she became the youngest singer with Sounds of Blackness. At 21, she had her first recording contract. She's since sung backup for Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson and written her own music. 'Paris has two legends to live up to,' Jamecia says.'That's double the pressure.'
So how's the 17-year-old powerhouse from Fayetteville, Georgia, handling it? Just fins, says her mom. Paris, who went on the road at age 4 with Sounds of Blackness, thinks of Simon and a teacher and not a critic. And when she goes back to her apartment every night, she becomes a little girl again, curling up with her Spongebob blanket and pillow.
End story.
So Jamecia fancies herself a legend for being a backup singer and getting into a group through nepotism. I guess we can see where Paris gets her inflated sense of self worth from.
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