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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

I was heavily involved in musical theater.