I grew up in a small town．My father raised chickens and ran a construction company．I was barely 10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility (责任) of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable．He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility．Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club called the Natchbill Palace, I washed dishes and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and them went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning．It wasn’t long before I became known as a singing cook．I had been rejected so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged．One night, a woman executive (董事) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing．
