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At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.
The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.
Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
