Audra McDonald Advice

soozievt
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:45:11 +0000

I love Audra McDonald. She is so very talented and her voice is amazing. I saw her in concert a year ago and loved every minute. She also seems like a well grounded and genuinely wonderful person. I am grateful to how nice she has been to my daughter.

The tips she offers in that article are great. I particularly like the one that work begets work. From my observation of my own kid who is a young artist, I really observe this to be true. I think the more you work and network with people in that work and are seen by others in the industry, more work can evolve. It takes time to build that, but I think some opportunities arise due to previous work, and might be more likely to happen than discoveries of brand new talent in a blind audition (though that happens too).

And as @monkey13 mentioned in her post, I have stated here many times that I think you can’t wait for work to come to you and have to go out and create opportunities and projects as well. That has been a big thing for my own kid. I also think that having a versatile skill set may open up the chances of more work. But my tips are merely observations as a parent of a young artist, and Audra speaks from experience!