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Julie Roberts' Advice To Aspiring Singers

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Julie Roberts Photo Courtesy of Mercury Nashville


July 13, 2006--Julie Roberts tells the Arizona Daily Star that she meets young girls all the time on the road who want to be singers. I tell them, 'You gotta keep working at it,'" says Julie. "Every single night I played anywhere I could. You gotta play for free. You gotta keep knocking on doors. Anything worth having doesn't come easy. You gotta keep working at it. You keep a vision of where you want to be.'

"There's no set way in Nashville," adds Julie, "and you learn that. Keep going to clubs and keep taking your little tapes."

And when things don't go exactly right?

"You keep calling mama," laughs Julie, who chose the song "Mama Don't Cry" because it captured her close relationship with her mother. "I still talk to her a million times a day," Julie says. "But I try not to stress, and I don't question the things I don't have control over. And that's what I hope my song 'Mama Don't Cry' does for young people when they hear it."

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