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Jim (my dad): The doctor handed her to me and i remember counting fingers and toes, making sure there was 10 of each.
Jim: We realised very early on that she had asthma. It was very frightening because, you know, if she had an asthma attack, she could die.
Judy (my mom) : It's scary when your child is gasping for breath and you're running into the emergency room to get adrenaline shots.
Jim: Lotsa of doctors. Lots of needles. It was a sad thing. It would just break your heart.
Jim: Alecia, at a very early age, she wrapped me abound the finger , she was daddy's little girl. does that mean Pheonix got that from me since she is the same way?? *laughs*
Jim: I was into music, and she just got into music early with me. It was a natural thing to her. She'd grab something and pretend it was a microphone, and we'd do `do-a, do-a' together.
Jason (my brotherrrrrr): Just non-stop singing all the time. With the Karaoke machine, or in the car driving , just always, always singing. It used to drive me crazy.
Jason: She had a harder time with it than I did. She kinda just bottled it all up.
Jim: I think music became for her a hiding place. It was a place for her to get away from the arguing. To get away from the unhappy part of her life.
Jim: She had a song she sang by Madonna, called `Oh, Father'. 10 years old, on stage, about 1500 people there.
Judy: She performed without a slightest bit of anxiety - just loved being in front of the audience.
Jim: She just blew them away. Including me. I thought, `Boy, this kid has really got the stuff!'
Judy: It was amazing to hear the voice come out of this little child.
Jim: Right then, I knew she was gonna be something. She was hot.
Jess(friend): Alecia, when we were 12, she was always singing, always.
Camille(friend): Singing in the hallways and singing in class. Teacher would be like, `Alecia, be quiet!'
Grace (friend): And she said, `I'm practicing, I'm practicing. I'm gonna be a star someday.'
Julie(friend): When you're in 9th grade and you're gonna sing in a recital, you're probably expected to wear nice dress with little pat and leather shoes.
Eric(friend): She had these big ass-kicker boots on. That was her attitude, like you know, `Yeah I can look pretty, but I still have my ass- kicking shoes on.'
Julie(friend): Alecia has always had an attitude.
Elizabeth: I truly don't remember her ever taking shit from anybody.
Camille: `I'm Alecia. I do what I wanna do and that's it!'
Elizabeth: `This is who I am…and screw you if you don't like it!'
Jess: Her and her mom would fight all the time. They love each other to death, but they could just not get along.
Julie: She wasn't concerned with tomorrow's math test. She was more concerned about how's she gonna make it big. How she's gonna get discovered.
Eric: She'd just make up a rhyme and be like, `I'm gonna use that someday,' you know, `I wanna use that,' and she'd write it down.
Judy: Her initial writings were always very introspective. Some of it was very black and very deep. I was almost worried some, but it was her outlet and her way of, I guess, veining these feelings that she had
Julie: Every morning before school, we would out at the church parking lot right outside of school.
Eric: Everybody'll be over there, smoking and riding their skateboards.
Julie: We'd all try and be little skater chicks. She would skate with all the guys and look like one of them.
Eric: The skateboard underneath her arm, you know, with that punky attitude.
Jess: We weren't the jocks, or the cheerleaders, you know what I mean? Like the typical good kids. We would just go and hang out and be bad.
Julie: Alecia was all about having fun. She just wanted to go out and have a good time.
Jim: There wasn't anywhere for the kids to go, so it's no surprise to me that she ended up going to Philadelphia.
Judy: She said she wanted to go to a teen club in the city and her brother was going with her.
Jason: It was like a rave type deal. It was…a lot of people doing stuff they shouldn't be doing.
Judy: I was told that there was no alcohol, there were no drugs - and I believed it.
Jason: We used to go out all the time. On school nights and definitely on the weekends.
Chrissy: And our manager's like, `Yeah, guess what? We found this girl in Philly.' And we `What's she like? Can she sing?' And they `Eh… she can sing! That we don't have to worry about. As a matter of fact, she might probably teach you a couple of things.'
Judy: Three white girls singing black RnB - that was the initial concept for the group, Choice. The first song that they created was called Key To My Heart. It was selected to be on the Kazaam soundtrack, with Shaquille O Neil.
Chrissy: We'd come home, and I'd just wanna crash, you know. I'd go watch a movie or whatever, and make dinner. And she'd be upstairs writing a song. She was always right there, just leading the way.
Sharon: That Christmas performance was a road of waiting for all of us. It wasn't about Choice anymore - from that point on, I think, it was all about Alecia Moore. Afterwards I had conversations with Alecia and I said `You know what, I'm not sure about the group. I think you're incredible and I really would love for you to take a stab at it as a solo.
Jim: Same attitude. She's never lost that attitude, and you know what? I think it's that tenacity that makes her as good as she is.
That's Alecia. That's Pink.
Billy B: If it hadn't been for her drive as a songwriter and a singer, I don't know where she'd be. I think she'd be in jail!'
Judy: She's never doubted for a minute that she was going to succeed. She made this happen herself
Mike: She always spoke as if she already was a star, and never was `May we all blow up,' it was, `When I blow up, I'm gonna do it this way.'
gotta love themmmmmm