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India arie because I am a queen download6/13/2023 ![]() It was a direct result of writing songs", she said at the press release of her debut album, Acoustic Soul. "When I started tapping into my own sensitivity, I started to understand people better. Simpson had taken up a succession of musical instruments throughout her schooling in Denver, but her interest in the guitar while attending the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, led to a personal revelation about songwriting and performing. Īfter Simpson's parents divorced, her mother moved the family to Atlanta, Georgia when India was 13. Arie is African-American, and according to a DNA analysis, she descends from the Mende people of Sierra Leone, the Kru people of Liberia and the Fula people of Guinea-Bissau. She has an older brother named J'On and younger sister Mary A Martin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother is a former singer (she was signed to Motown as a teenager and opened for Stevie Wonder and Al Green) and is now her stylist. Her musical skills were encouraged by both parents in her younger years. ![]() India was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Joyce and Ralph Simpson.
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