ex-husband sujoy edition for not atlantic audition for choice for years and i eventually signed the troy west saying in his basement. and then i would spend summers with him i would spend all my christmas vacations every day case and i had as a kid i would go to learn how to be a better singer and a better record. when i graduated in. seventeen i was given a year by my mother to either get a record do or get a job or go to college or figure something else out well wasn't under. her payroll you know we see you had to make sure you get there and then i did have to audition for atlantic i got called in to me with credit counted in my community are going to do i guess and what i had on and everything i had to sing in this little circle and . what was your first my first real hit number my first number one hit was k. hope which song produced by. it was produced by stargate written by john terry austin who was actually a big brother monitor this was on my second album so i was the first two thousand and three my first came out second and also. and i got my first hit so the. truth is going to be wor