The exhilaration of her time on the stage, coupled with a coveted role in the children’s chorus during a 1981 Houston Grand Opera production of Carmen, left Goldsberry with a simple guiding principle: the next time someone pointed at her and asked her to sing, she’d sing as loud and proud as she could. “I just changed my clothes, and I kept coming on, singing backup, and it was amazing.” “I was just the happiest kid alive to be in the background,” Goldsberry recalls. Though not yet the Tony-winning star she would become, Goldsberry, then 8, embraced every quick change and dance step with an enthusiasm and effortlessness that would one day inform her future career. That volume paid off when Goldsberry’s parents enrolled both children in a Houston International Theatre School summertime program to keep them out of the house and away from the sweltering Space City heat. “He used to say, ‘Renée, it’s not that you sing all the time, it’s that you sing all the time so loud.’” “I’d be in the back seat singing too loud or rapping too loud, annoying my brother,” she admits with a chuckle. It's safe to say Goldsberry's family held a passion for the arts. The singer reminisces on a childhood spent belting out lyrics to songs heard on Houston radio stations, first introduced by her parents.
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