Little Richard shatter racial divisions in the music industry. Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In Inn. His mother was a member of Macon's New Hope Baptist Church. Initially, Little Richard's first name was supposed to have been "Ricardo" but an error resulted in "Richard" instead. The Penniman children were raised in a neighborhood of Macon called Pleasant Hill.
Who I Was Born to Be to Be" was composed by Johan Fransson, Tim Larsson, and Tobias Lundgren. Among her most notable performances of "Who I Was Born to Be", Boyle's first live performance of this song was on 7 December 2009 in London before an audience for the taping of her television special "". "Who I Was Born to Be" was used as the theme song for the anime "Welcome to the Space Show" which was released in 2010. Boyle performed the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago on 19 January 2010. On 10 July 2011 she performed it in front of a