Leadership

1- What is your role with CP Kids Choir and why did you help start a new choir for kids?

As a mother of three, I wanted my children to participate in a choir. The only choir I could find started at 4:15 in Midtown. After experiencing few opportunities for kinder music on the southside and experiencing how schools have dropped music from their offerings, I decided I would have to be the change I wanted to see in the world.  

2- Did you sing as a kid in a choir and if so what was your favorite memory or song from that experience?

I wish! My parents started a church and unfortunately, there were never enough kids, and not enough money to have a youth choir. I also went to a very nice private school but it didn’t start music until 5th grade and there weren’t choirs until high school. So even though I wasn’t in a choir, my favorite memories of singing come from memorizing “Starlight Express” as a four-year-old, the “Dirty Dancing Soundtrack” as a six-year-old, and “A Chorus Line” Motion picture soundtrack when I was eight. Thankfully my Mother bought records and taught me how to use them from an early age. Thankfully our foyer had a big mirror and my mother and sister tolerated my endless belting.

Not surprisingly, I ended up with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elon University in Music Theater, and Dance.