As an award-winning singer-songwriter Kelly Price has had plenty of success in the music industry. She recently reflected on her musical journey, which began in the church where at just 3 years old Price began performing solos with the children’s choir.
Her love for songwriting followed soon after and by the age of 7 she wrote her first song.
“I can almost say anything inside of a song and creative license is extremely forgiving because it’s just a way to get it out,” Price told “Closer Look” host Rose Scott Thursday. “For me, as a kid, living through a lot of things — poverty, homelessness, abuse– it was the way that I could get things out without betraying a family secret or telling what I didn’t know I could tell or was afraid to tell.”
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