BRUNETTE AMBITION AND ALL ABOUT LIVING LOUDER by joel martens
It is undeniable, the force that emanates from this petite frame is nothing less than immense. If you
haven’t heard her over the last five years on Glee, you have missed a great talent. Fortunately for you, she is just beginning. She and the rest of the cast have introduced a whole new generation to classic American music ranging from Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” to Barbra Streisand’s famed classic from Funny Girl “Don’t Rain On My Parade.” The Broadway maven actually thanked the young doyenne for introducing her to said generation… Hello, Gorgeous! Born on August 29, 1986 in the Bronx, New York Michele started early, landing the role of young Co-
sette at 8 in the 1995 Broadway production of Les Miserables. She really hasn’t stopped singing since… Ragtime in 1998, Fiddler on the Roof and then her intense breakout role as Wendla in Spring Awakening, a show that perhaps mirrored bits of the transition she was herself making from child star to the adult version we now have the delight to know. That transition hasn’t been without its challenges and as with most young people, there have been difficult moments. Losing boyfriend Cory Monteith in 2013 being one, very large challenge. She, like the phoenix, has risen from those personal ashes and feels she now has something to offer others—borne from those experiences. That tempering is definitely front-and-center in her new albumLouder, due out this month—both light and popish, yet at the same time showing a breadth and depth of emotional experience. Nicely done, I highly recommend it.
“It’sreally funnybecause when I look at it now, I can see everything that I wasfeeling andgoing through. Whether or not Iintended on that happening, it did and I amreally thankful for that.”
28 RAGE monthly | MARCH 2014 | MARCH 2014
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