When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.