A performer describes starting acting, singing, and dancing at nine years old, dreaming of joining the 1980s TV show Rags to Riches. She attended a conservatory for voice, dance, and theater while finishing high school, convinced entertainment was her destiny.
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I started acting and singing and dancing when I was about nine. That's when I started taking lessons. I believed that I was going to be the fifth little girl on the television series Rags to Riches. And I'm dating myself here. So anybody from the 80s that remembers that show, you know, it was five orphaned children who were adopted by this man, and they would sing and dance to 50s and 60s songs. And I convinced myself I was going to be on the show. So I started lessons and I was performing really my whole childhood. I went to a conservatory for voice and dance and theater, in addition to a regular high school, and I never doubted that that's what I was going to do.