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Got It From My Momma

Jennifer Vickery Smith

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A podcast with the mommas of your favorite entertainers! Join host Jennifer Vickery Smith for the Got it From My Momma podcast! We'll chat about family, fame, and faith with the mommas of your favorite entertainers. Listen as our guests share never before heard stories from the artist’s childhood and the journey to stardom from the perspective only a momma can share!
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Coming out of the back wood’s in a little township in Ohio , far away from the city light’s, comes the musical talents of “Bobby Smith”. Being exposed mostly by the records his Father played of “Jerry Lee Lewis”and also the music of little country churches. At age 15 while sitting in church one evening, a visiting black gentleman by the name of “Jack Harris dropped by. When “Jack sat down and graced that old upright piano, everything in the building came to life. At that moment “Bobby” asked ...
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