Lakewood native J’Nai Bridges is a rising star in the world of opera. But she had never performed at the Seattle Opera until last week.
Deborah Horne, KIRO 7 NewsSEATTLE — Her astonishing voice has been heard around the world, but it was discovered and nurtured right here in the Pacific Northwest.
Hers is a voice that is drawing raves across the opera world. So, it is hard to imagine that being an acclaimed mezzo-soprano wasn’t the performing life Bridges had imagined.“Oh, my goodness, it was quite late for a musician,” she said. “I think I was a junior, a junior in high school.”“I just remember being really intrigued by this sound,” she recalled. “I’d never, I didn’t grow up on opera. I did grow up singing, I grew up singing in the church, Allen A.M.E. in Tacoma, Washington.
“And so, I said,’ I don’t know how I’m going to fit another extracurricular activity in’,” she said. “But I did because I am the daughter Of Pamela Marie Lewis Bridges and Edward Paris Bridges. And so, I decided to start studying privately. And it just grasped me in a way that nothing else really had.”
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