When asked how long has she has been singing Redd honestly replies " I don't know. I guess as long as I could speak.
I just always wanted to sing." The earliest accounts of Redd's performances are of her entertaining her family banging on an old upright piano and singing around the house using a hairbrush as a microphone. Her grandfather's church in rural Alabama was her first performance venue. By age 5 Redd was traveling around the south with her mother Maureen as a part the gospel group The Rising Stars.