But my parents picked Ft. Wayne, which was the best decision because if they had brought me to New York or Philly, I would have swam back to Trinidad! Heather Headley Read Quote
Broadway’s a lot of work, don’t get me wrong. It’s eight shows a week. You hardly ever see the sunset. I remember when I left, I was like, ‘Oh! The sun’s setting! I haven’t seen that in a year!’ Singing eight shows a week is hard. Heather Headley Read Quote
Truth be told, I decided years ago not to call it a job, because I know people who work – my mother worked, hard. Heather Headley Read Quote
I had left ‘Ragtime’ – and ‘Ragtime’ was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than ‘The Lion King’. Heather Headley Read Quote
I remember coming into ‘The Lion King’ and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we’re kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody’s working on this in one room, and somebody’s working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together. Heather Headley Read Quote
My aim is to bridge Broadway and the R&B world; and to bring all my Broadway experience to the R&B world; and one day, when I go back to Broadway, to bring some R&B to that. Heather Headley Read Quote
You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers. Heather Headley Read Quote
