I’m glad I never had any work done on my vocal chords. I was an adult before I found out people liked my voice when I did stand-up or animated roles. So I was always worried I had an ugly voice. She’d say, ‘You have to do something about your voice! It doesn’t sound pretty! Listen to all the other kids, they sound nice, and then there’s you!’ I had no idea how I could change my voice. When I told Wanda Sykes during an interview some years ago that listening to her voice one-on-one is surreal, she replied, “I didn’t know I had a unique voice for many years, but I did know it sounded different when I was a kid. There is no mistaking the unique sounding voice of out superstar comedy legend Wanda Sykes.