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And she also gravitated towards performance.

She was always like, you know, the classic front woman thing.

You know, it's like when she was a little kid, she was always singing into microphones.

You know, it's like that story, right?

Her father being a drummer and a failed drummer did not discourage her mother because her father left pretty early.

But it didn't discourage her mother from encouraging Ronnie's

musical talent she didn't just like all of a sudden I mean if it was me like dude I had ex-girlfriends that were like my ex-boyfriend was a drummer and he failed at music so you can't possibly make money off of music and I'm like you know maybe you're wrong I don't know to be fair I didn't make a lot of money off of it so whatever so yeah so her mom her mom supports her her dad's always waxing poetic about his days as a musician so she grows up as that being like a really important thing

Right.

She was always singing at school events, neighborhood functions.

She got a style, right?

That's something that happens when you do a lot of music is eventually at first you're just learning.

You're just trying to replicate other people's things.

But eventually, once you do it enough, you develop style, right?

And for her, she developed a very unique style.

It was very raw.

It wasn't musically perfect, but it had just a tone that was just beautiful.

Everybody recognized it.

Right.

So her older sister, Estelle, and her cousin, Nedra, formed a vocal group called the Darling Sisters.

The trio practiced constantly, singing in school hallways, street corners, in their apartments.