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Myers was born Alicia Myers on November 20, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, to Lawrence and Margaret Myers, as one of their nine children, and she has an older brother, Jackie. She attended Lee University, for her collegiate studies. They competed in a local talent competition in April 1968 at Detroit's Martin Luther King Jr., High School, where they sang, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", a song by Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, and they were awarded first place. She is a survivor of childhood tuberculosis, and later survived breast cancer. In 1978, she departed her hometown to start her music career in Los Angeles, California, with Al Hudson & the Soul Partners who, soon after her arrival, would change their name into One Way featuring Al Hudson and, eventually, into One Way.