Laura Bryna

Singer and songwriter Laura Bryna, a Mount Airy, MD, native, first got hooked on country music while listening to country radio during long drives to a Washington, D.C., hospital to visit her brother, who was in a six-month coma following a brain aneurysm; Bryna's visits also inspired her later tireless support of the Make a Wish Foundation. She attended Philadelphia's University of the Arts, studying acting, singing, and dancing, and following her senior recital, Bryna was selected to appear in the cast of the Broadway-bound musical Rasputin and appeared on the subsequent cas...