Audra mcdonald children

Let’s go back to the very beginning. You grew up in Fresno, California, but you were actually born in Berlin, Germany. How old were you when you moved?

Audra McDonald: We left Berlin when I was I about eight weeks old. My mother and I went to Lawrenceville, Virginia, which is her hometown, and then my dad went off to Vietnam. Once he finished his tour of duty in Vietnam, we moved to Fresno, which is where he’s from. I think I was nine months old. My parents made the trip across country in a dark green Volkswagen station wagon.

Was there a musical tradition in your family? Were other members musical?

Audra McDonald: My family’s very musical. My grandmother, my maternal grandmother, was a music major in — I guess it would have been the ’30s in Mississippi — went to college, and she was a piano teacher after that. My mother played the piano as a result. And then on my dad’s side, his mother was a piano teacher and the organist at their church, and all of his sisters sang. My dad played. My dad ended up being a music maj

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