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Does the question “Did singing since I was 12 help me? I’m 20 now” have the same implication with the sentence “I had been singing singing since I was 12. I’m 20 now”?

Could you please help me with this? Thanks!

• Your first sentences- Did singing since I was 12 help me. - is incorrect.
  You cannot use the Past Simple Tense here.


• Your second sentence uses the Past Perfect and that's incorrect as well.


• You are comparing a declarative sentence to an interrogative on, and that on its own will produce different outcomes.

It should be said be said in the Present Perfect tense. ( you even used since as a conjunction which is commonly used with the Present Perfect)

Has singing since i was 12 helped me?

or

I have sung since i was 12. I'm 20 now.

is the way to go.

What information are you trying to communicate? Do you want the reader to stop reading and do mathematics, maybe counting with their fingers, "20 minus 12 equals 8"

I suggest you either do the math for them: "I have been singing for eight years." Or make a more general statement: I have been singing since childhood."

Also, when you say singing, do you mean as a performance, taking singing lessons, singing in the shower? People sing who aren't very good singers, even after years of the Rubber Ducky Song while bathing.

Finally, you have errors in your typing: "singing singing"? Is that repetition to clarify your singing is more than shower singing or did you type it wrong? It is confusing. I can't see your face or hand gestures. Tell me, explain it.

How about: My career started with a performance of the Star Spangled Banner at age twelve and I have been singing now for eight years.

I suggest you make a list of the facts and ideas you want your reader to understand. Then write multiple short sentences. And then try to trim down the number of words and sentences to the smallest amount which still hold all of the meaning.

Writing and reading are more difficult than speaking, so make your words rich with meaning, like rich coffee. But not so much that the reader has to slow down and puzzle it out.