sing exactly at three years ago it was it was family at home because the baby the seven and sisters and brothers all singing my dad had a group of thing all the with there was no doubt you didn't have to listen to the prank that or that's what i want to you know i knew what i wanted to do and it wasn't because of those people that i listen to but because of my faith my sisters and brothers were my firs out we just step aside and we all did it together i mean it was all of us together for years and years i wasn't the soloist my older sister margot s was one who may have the group but i didn't sing by myself really into where after high school so we skipped over some years ok we're live listening to our and being doing a lot of r and b radio records singing with the family you know listen to a lot of records radio of course we did have videos so we didn't really know the people who are like but we knew what they sounded like you know and we resigning with the family or sons of my daddy taught and i don't know where he got them from we never we didn't that never came when you were the staple singers in the whole family thing we were aware of that but we were different warm in the winter and kept it cool in the summer and it's ok because we were doing things where they come out of club an elks club and we were invited to do those things around ten between ten and fifteen and then just shortly after fifteen we start singing club that's when that was like it was great for me i was still in school i was the youngest once  phoenix following my sister who had established herself on a great career then i came in and started singing where she was working and became the named me france saying these it it was raining i said ok and then people started calling me francis and i became this person that you see today so and then the eighty some friends of mine named j they were germany and they met lyle in germany and lyle like them they like lyle he came back united states would did a demo tape and scottsdale arizona because we all lived around there and he said he need a female singer they brought him to hear me and the rest is history everything i've done wasn't really plan be if they hadn't asked me to come into this years ago and i love it and i can't get enough of it and i love seattle and i love being here thank you that's one of mine i wrote that when i was jamming with my nephews of the time they were about fifteen and now they're in their twenty's and yeah lots of good music going on in spokane over there to it's a little tune i picked up along the way somewhere quite an experience because i was in l a so i was in the area over there and just about five thousand people there that day you know probably a hundred or two hundred thousand that addition and any given  it was good to see what you're like sort of under pressure have you been a performer your whole life has just always been a dream to say yes i'm back now i have a musical family that's growing up even more the generation underneath me my nieces and nephews  and so it's getting just more musical is day yeah it's amazing so they're how old are they to get to yeah i have a sister who's about ten years older than me she sings and plays i have a few nephews that are in town here little really talented kevin just followed me it was at my friend's house and i was playing this one instead of my guitar they gave it to me when i have always played acoustic thing yeah i keep threatening to learn how to play the lead yeah i'd like break that out i guess it was a groove song for me makes people but then it's about feeding the hungry you know so i mean i don't i don't necessarily talk too much about my work so you know it's always it's challenge for  meeting with the big eight or twelve or nine i don't know how many powerful countries they have they call nato and i was actually moved i have to preach produced a minute and i just have yeah the  system the news i like to listen to and watch is on the channel i'm on channel seventy seven and democracy now is to show amy goodman does it and today she i was i was moved to tears she actually had outtakes which you won't see in other news shows they just won't play the step they had outtakes of soldiers who had been to desert storm and many of the recent wars were in in afghanistan and iraq and such and they were taking their medals and throwing them back at nato and before they did they were speaking they were saying some stuff about what they were doing and why so moving and you can find that on our channel go back and take up the archives or go to democracy now dot org i found that to be so powerful the best use of the medium if i can say so to hear from soldiers who are fighting for our freedom of speech and to realize that they were not you know this is against the act of war and not cool with the and they were throwing their medals back and saying this is for all the people suffering from p t s d my fellow soldiers or they were saying these are for the kids who don't have parents who are in afghanistan and iraq and they were throwing those medals back every one of them was moving statements i have to tell you