How to Sing a Song

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KWAME

ALEXANDER AND

RANDY PRESTON

MELISSA SWEET

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This book is dedicated to my father, Louis, and my mother, Janice, who taught me how to sing, to love all music, and, crucially, how to write it. These gifts live eternally in me. I’m grateful.

—R.P.

Dedications to come —R.P.

For Rosemary —M.S.

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