She remembers how her uncle Will would sing "Pretty Baby" to her at night, but says since then everyone she has cared about has died.

My uncle sang another song, a dancing song.

Music was a constant in Scott's life as her father and two uncles sang in a group called The Scott Three in the 1970s.

His uncle played bass guitar and sang in a touring rock band, his brother plays drums, and his grandparents played guitar, piano and accordion.

His other uncle Sharafat Ali also sings religious eulogies, which are called Nohas.

My father sang them, my mother played them... my aunts and uncles, who were legion, sang them singly and in unison at the slightest provocation.

He was exposed to a variety of music influences, but among the most lasting were the country and western tunes his uncles would sing during family get-togethers.

His uncle sang the national anthem.

The music continued, another one of the dumy, and this one much less cheerful than the one my uncle had been singing at home, because I think the musician was very tired.

Her most famous song, "500 miles," was put together from fragments of a melody she had heard her uncle sing to her back in Georgia .