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Janeen Phelps
I grew up in an Army family. My dad, uncles, and both of my grandfathers served. So as soon as I turned seventeen, I asked for my dad's blessing to enlist. But, having served in the Army during the Vietnam era, responding to civil unrest, he said no. He had his reasons.
So, I turned to singing—first, on the strip in Vegas; then, after a performance at the Apollo Theater in New York, I was invited to sing for a top cruise line, where I spent five years traveling everywhere.