Natasha Wilson
New Zealand soprano opera singer
Natasha Te Rupe Wilson (born 1994) is a New Zealand soprano opera singer of Māori and Pākehā heritage.
Life
Wilson was born and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father was Māori and her mother of European heritage. She affiliates to the iwi Te Arawa and Ngāpuhi.
Wilson's father Brian, who died in 2017, was a tenor vocalist and bass guitarist in the heavy-metal band Naked Blade, which toured New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s. Brian Wilson instilled a love of singing in her and her three siblings, singing show tunes and soundtracks with them in the car and teaching them to harmonise from an early age; he encouraged his daughter to pursue classical music as a career. Natasha Wilson's first exposure to classical singing was from a DVD of The Phantom of the Opera her father brought home when she was 12, especially the aria "Think of Me".
Wilson attended Westlake Girls High School, and was taught music by Morag Atchison, a lecturer in voice at the University of Auckland. Aitchison, a vocal tutor for the New Zealand Youth Choir in which Wilson participated, took her as a student and continued as her vocal coach outside of school.
Wilson graduated in 2016 from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Music (Honours first class), majoring in classical vocal performance.
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