From Whitney Houston to Leontyne Price, from Steven Spielberg to Giuseppe Verdi – rising opera star J’Nai Bridges reveals what makes her tick.
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When did you start singing?
I began singing when I was six years old in the choir at Saint Anne’s church in Lucca, where I …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 13 or 14 I started singing Georgian and Russian folk songs with my sister who was played …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 11 to a disc of Rigoletto with Gobbi, Callas and Di Stefano; a blanket on my shoulder …
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When did you start singing?
As a child in Upstate New York, every Sunday I was taken to Mass. I loved hearing the songs in Latin, …
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When did you start singing?
Maybe at 5.
Why did you start singing?
I always loved to sing anywhere, anytime.
Which singer inspired you most when you were young?
Gwen …
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When did you start singing?
I started singing when I was 12/13 years old. I was a tenor then…
Why did you start singing?
I started singing because …
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When did you start singing?
Singing began for me in junior school, church choir and continued through grammar school; first as treble until I was 12 …
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When did you start singing?
I can’t ever remember I time where I didn’t sing.
Why did you start singing?
I can’t remember the first “why” but there …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 21.
Why did you start singing?
For fun.
Which singer inspired you most when you were young?
Ettore Bastianini.
Which singer do …
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When did you start singing?
I was in the 5th grade when the music teacher, Mrs Mapson, asked me to sing the Wells Fargo Wagon song …
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When did you start singing?
From what I remember I’ve always sung: when I was seven I had emergency surgery for peritonitis and I sang …
When did you start singing?
I always loved to sing since I was a child. I sang on every occasion, also during public events at school, …
When did you start singing?
I have been singing singing since I was small boy. However, my first official voice lesson was in September of 1977. …
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When did you start singing?
I started as a young girl… for as long as I can remember.
Why did you start singing?
I started by accident. …
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When did you start singing?
When I was a girl.
Why did you start singing?
For my own personal enjoyment.
Which singer inspired you most when you were …
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When did you start singing?
As a professional at 19 thanks to being chucked out of the Guildhall. I always sang as a child.
Why did you …
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When did you start singing?
In the crib. Apparently, I was a very vocal baby … no seriously, I already sang as a child.
Why did you …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 16, with my mother! I had been learning the violin, but without much enthusiasm.
Why did you …
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When did you start singing?
There’s not a time I don’t remember singing in some capacity.
Why did you start singing?
I have a need to perform and …
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When did you start singing?
I had my first solo in the 5th grade Christmas Concert, but I became more serious in high school.
Why did you …
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When did you start singing?
Opera at 25… Pop music at 16
Why did you start singing?
It was love at first sight.
Which singer inspired you most …
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When did you start singing?
More or less I’ve always sung. First at my local church, then one day my cousin, who sung Ave Marie …
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When did you start singing?
Age 12. I had always sung before but only found my true voice at this age. My father was a bass …
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When and why did you start singing?
When I was a kid… I come from a musical family, and so music has always been a part …
Jacquelyn Wagner answers the Gramilano Questionnaire reflecting on her life, career, passions, thoughts and opinions.
When did you start singing?
I always sang as a kid – …
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When did you start singing?
I always sang. My mother told me that I sang even before I talked. I also cannot remember a time when …
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When did you start singing?
My first performance was when I was three years old, then when I was five I started my musical training, …
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When did you start singing?
I don’t remember exactly when…
Why did you start singing?
Because it felt good.
Which singers inspired you most when you were young?
ABBA.
Which singer …
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When did you start singing?
We have a recording of me when I was three singing La via dolorosa, complete with background track. So it’s safe …
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When did you start singing?
I started singing when I was very young, but seriously in 1996, together with literature and music. I was a …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 9.
Why did you start singing?
I was studying piano, and the transition was natural.
Which singer inspired you …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 6, in the chorus of my hometown in the Valle d’Aosta. A lady in my parish, Rita, invited …
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When did you start singing?
When I was 6 years old.
Why did you start singing?
My Dad.
Which singer inspired you most when you were young?
My Dad, my …
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When did you start singing?
On the staircase of my apartment building, there was an echo that added force to my voice; I listened to …
