Wicked. Like thousands of performers and crew members she was sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering theaters across the nation when she found out she’d landed the role. “I was in my apartment in LA sitting peacefully,” she told ESSENCE.
Minutes later, she was living the dream she spent hours manifesting mimicking Mariah Carey as a child. “Honestly, she taught me how to sing.
I used to listen to her and try to emulate her. And I do feel like a lot of how I sing is as a result of listening to Mariah,” she said.
Wicked, which is being adapted into a film starring Cynthia Ervio and Carey collaborator Ariana Grande, arrived on Broadway in 2003.
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