Today, she's a 30-year-old two-time Golden Globe nominee who's graced the screen and stage. But, for Lea Michele, rising to the top in Hollywood wasn't a seamless harmony. The Bronx native began her show business career on the East Coast where she made her Broadway debut at 8 years old in Les Misérables and steadily garnered more standout roles. For her new album "Places", Michele really wanted to connect back to her New York and Broadway roots. She said, "I really went back to my roots with this album and I really used the women that I grew up listening to, like Barbra Streisand and Céline Dion, as real lampposts for the basis of the power of this album. I just didn't try to sound like anyone other than myself. No one wanted me to change my voice. If it's theatrical, it's theatrical. If it's dramatic, it's dramatic. It's me."
