Jamie Barton

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton has a crowd-pleasing sense of fun that propelled her beyond the common run of young singers in the 2010s. She is one of the few American singers to have won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Barton was born in Rome, Georgia, on October 17, 1981, and began performing at age six in a school talent show there. She attended Rome's Shorter University, earning a B.A. in vocal performance, and went on for a master's degree at Indiana University. After further training at the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and during stints as a Gerdine Young Ar...