A singer remembers discovering her voice at five when she wanted to perform in a school talent show, practicing until her father recorded her on his shoulder camera. Her father filled her childhood with opera, ballet, and classical music, and she got her first vocal coach at nine.
Absolutely. So when I was 5 years old is when they really knew that I could sing. I remember telling my mom that I wanted to do— I believe it was the talent show. My mom's like, what are you going to do? And I told her I wanted to sing. And apparently I would practice at school and I would never sing at home. So the first time they heard me sing was when my dad had one of those old school cameras on his shoulder. And you can hear in the recording when he goes, oh my God, she can actually sing. And I think at the time I sang Beauty and the Beast and I took it so seriously practicing at school at 5. And then it kind of just took off from there. Like you said in the intro, I, I had my first vocal coach at 9 and then one of my teachers said, hey, I want you to try singing this opera piece. And growing up, my dad, he introduced all types of music to me. So I listened to a lot of classical music. We went to operas, we went to see the ballet. So I was immersed in the all arts culture at a very young age.
