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WBM october 2018
As much as he loved opera, it
wasn’t something he pushed on
Nikoleta. Quite the opposite, in
fact.
“The conscious effort was to get
her to follow dad to become a phy-sician’s
assistant or doctor, but that
didn’t work out,” he says.
It didn’t seem he would have to
worry about his daughter following
the difficult path to the operatic
stage when she was younger.
“I always sang and did perfor-mances,
but I didn’t do opera or
classical music,” she says. “I did
blues, R&B, musical theater, coun-try;
that’s what I liked.”
Gradually, she came to realize
her uncool dad was actually pretty
talented, and the music wasn’t so
bad either.
“He would have his voice lessons
here at the house,” she says. “When
I was older I would either hide
upstairs or I would be down here