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i sat down about trixie here in >> reporter: music has always come naturally to 28-year-old trixie whitley. >> i'm not classically trained. i'm completely self-taught so i consider myself more of an expressionist. >> reporter: the daughter of singer chris whitley. trixie was drawn at percussion as a child and at age 10 announced she wanted to play upright bass. >> they completely just kind of laughed me out of school! and we are like -- i mean, there is no way that there is an instrument that is your size! >> reporter: size. so trixie started on the drums and raised in new york and belgium where her mother is from. >> reporter: whitley spent her early teens performing with an art troup around europe but at 17 moved back to new york. what brought you back to the city? >> that was the age i knew that own path and my musical identity. >> reporter: her father was also battling cancer. >> i knew at that time that my father was ill. so i knew that if i wasn't going to move back right then, that i probably wasn't going to have a chance to see him any more. so that honestly was the urgency behind

hello, is this trixie? this is daniel landwaa. i started shaking. >> reporter: daniel wanted her for a group they had. >> there is a little youtube video actually that youtube film is the very first moment of daniel, brian, and i making music together. >> reporter: by that time, whitley had also taught herself guitar. you didn't pick up the guitar until you were 20. >> yeah. >> and i had a lot of resistance toward the guitar for a long time because it was the instrument that my father played and i didn't want to follow in his foot steps. living in the room >> the thing, too, there was than undeniable like dna thing that i couldn't escape. so i noticed i would pick up the guitar and i would be like, i sound like my dad partially, whether i want to or not! i'm not trying to at all! >> reporter: is it something still want to escape it? >> yeah. i did for a long time. not any more. i think at first because part of me was still grieving and i didn't want to be reminded by that. >> so it's me through music, it's very confrontational. it

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checking on her dog trixie. >> so, max will -- max will -- oh, gosh, okay, that one was a contraction. max will be going home to take care of my girl. >> the max she's referring to is the baby daddy and -- >> the husband. smoothly. we hope to have a happy update for you tomorrow morning. >> good luck, sara. we can't wait to hold the little baby. >> breathe, breathe. >> thank you, ron. >> lamaze advice from ron claiborne who's delivered many children. >>> moving on this morning to an entirely different note, some wild new details coming in about a brazen gold heist that really looks like something out of a movie. >> robbers using gadgets and gizmos galore on a moving truck on the highway to steal almost $5 million in gold. abc's gloria riviera joins us with all of the details. good morning, gloria. >> reporter: good morning, paula. investigators say it took a gang of thieves a year to plan a sophisticated attack on an armored truck carrying solid gold bars. the drivers had guns on them for protection, but the robbers in costume pretending to be highway police striking in the dead of ni