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Nesby has been reticent about her birthdate, but the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Atlanta Journal-Constitution both reported her age as 45 in late 2003. A native of Joliet, Illinois, Nesby was the daughter of religious parents who both sang gospel music. Her father was a minister and her mother, who was a Mahalia Jackson fan, gave her voice lessons from a very early age. When she was four, she sang a solo at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. "I was scared to death, especially when the enthusiastic church members jumped up and started yelling 'Sing, baby, sing!,'" Nesby recalled to Deardra Shuler of the Black World Today website. "At four years old, it seemed they were screaming at me. I jumped out of the chair crying and ran to my mother tearfully." Nesby's mother explained that the churchgoers were encouraging her, and a vocal career was born.

Although only Gospel was permitted in the family home, Nesby also developed secular leanings. She and two friends formed a talent show trio, with Nesby playing the role of Aretha Franklin, while her friends impersonated Gladys Knight and Mavis Staples. They emerged as winners after a Chicago nightclub appearance, but Nesby gave in after her father ordered her to withdraw. After Nesby graduated from Joliet Central High School in 1973, her family moved to Rockford, Illinois, where her father became pastor of a church. Nesby had a child out of wedlock at 16, married at 19, and confined her artistic activities to singing on Sunday and serving as minister of music at her father's church. She held down a job as a cosmetologist, so she had few opportunities to apply her talent beyond a local level. Two of her three children grew up to have musical careers, and the third studied for the minis