A classically trained tenor vocalist, Nathan Pacheco was born in 1980 in Virginia, of Brazilian descent. His mother was a piano teacher, and he was immersed in piano and violin lessons early as a child. By high school he was seriously studying voice and singing, continuing down that path while attending and graduating from Brigham Young University's music program. Always fascinated by culture and language, Pacheco spent two years in Brazil after his graduation, following it with studies in Italy, where he performed with the Opera Festival of Lucca. By the time he returned to t...