What destined your choice of music?

I like almost all music, except certain indigenous musics like the didgeridoo, and some Asian music. With those caveats, I like Classical Music from all countries including Japan, China and India, Hip-hop, disco, jazz, bluegrass, rock, Show tunes, Western Swing, Cumbia, Reggae, Salsa, Bachata, Bossa Nova, Afro-Cuban, African, Opera, Lieder, Chamber music, atonal, a capella, cabaret, plainsong, and I’m sure I could go on for a page or two. I have about 150Gb of all these genres on my iPod, and I just leave it on Shuffle.

i don’t know why i like certain music, but i know why i hate certain music. i hate country and folk music because that is what my parents like. i hate hip hop and rap because first it isn’t melodic at all and second the lyrics are mostly repulsive. i hate mainstream pop music because it sounds generic and superficial, the “artists” are plushed up barbie dolls and kens and the content is always the same (e.g love and sex).
Music i like includes rock, classical music, j-pop (you just have to love their voices), instrumental music (real instruments, not the synthesiser crap), and movie and videogame sound tracks.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, my parents had them playing constantly and I obviously engrained a love for “oldies” music, classic rock, and anything similar.

I have two older sisters who loved the Beatles. They shaped my love for music.
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Ear training or aural skills plus piano lessons during my childhood. My choice of genres include all sort of intelligent multi-faceted music and rules out any mind-numbing monotonous “mush”.

My dad playing guitar and listening to the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, etc. really inspired my love of music. Although my tastes have certainly expanded to other genres such as blues, reggae, and indie rock, my roots definitely stem back to the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s rock and roll that my father exposed me to.

My generation influenced me completely.
The 70’s and 80’s.

I like the whole message of love, taking care of each other that comes in most old and new R&B music. It makes me happy. I also like gospel of course

When I was about 5 or 6 years old my dad bought me a little tape player for my room but he forgot to buy me some tapes to go with it! So, he looked through his tape collection and found a “Best of Judith Durham and The Seekers” anyone know of them? Some Aussies here might and I was hooked straight away. As a little girl I loved female voices and I think my dad thought that Judith Durham was a good choice for someone who appreciates the female voice. He wasn’t wrong.

Anyway, from that day on I was hooked on female voices especially and I don’t have a particular favourite genre but the vocal (if there are vocals) have to be inspiring to me. As I got older I fell in love with the likes of Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, Petula Clark and more recent singers like Alicia Keys, Anastacia, Mary J Blige, Patti Russo (Meat Loafs female vocalist) and then when I was about 18 years old I discovered Opera and haven’t looked back.

By the way, I have many favourite male singers as well but female voices have always been that little bit more inspiing for me

My three big brothers. They in turn were influenced by my hippie uncle.

My family.
Hippie parents: mom loved rock and dad loved jazz
Grandparents: grandma wrote and sang her own ballads as well as those by her father and uncle.