Nicole Heaston

In the last half of the 1990s, American soprano Nicole Heaston rapidly emerged as one of the most engaging and promising new stars in the operatic world. She was brought up in Chicago, in a musical family. Her mother was a trained concert pianist who worked as a school music teacher, while Heaston's father went to law school. While Heaston showed musical awareness and singing talent, she did not have a strong interest in opera singing; her favorite acts as a teenager were Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire. But, as a teenager, she won an NAACP music competition, and decided...