ATLANTA -- Three weeks ago in London, The Guardian Newspaper said of Armuchee, Georgia native Jamie Barton, a luminous mezzo-soprano, "she is a great artist no question, with a great imperturbable steadiness of tone and nobility of utterance, her performance marked her as one of the great Brahms interpreters of our times."
Not bad for the daughter of an auto mechanic in Northwest Georgia a girl who attended Shorter College This is an astonishing life in progress.
"No, I'm pretty normal as far as I know," she said with a hearty laugh.
Normal?
With one of the world's great opera voices.
No way.
"Really I didn't start singing classically at all, I didn't start listening to Opera until I was 19, maybe 20."
Now at 30, Jamie is like Haley's Comet, lighting up the sky with her performance at the BBC's Cardiff Singer of the World competition in Wales.
"It is the Olympics of opera singing. It happens every other year, All of the other countries send people to compete, and then the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) whittles down the list to 20. It's taken me time since the competition to even start processing what these two wins mean."
Tuesday afternoon Jeff Hullinger spoke with her on the campus of Emory University at the Schwarz Center for Performing Arts.
Jamie says she always sang in an Amurchee church and her family loved Bluegrass music.
"My family loved listening and picking and grinning."
Jeff Hullinger: "Bill Monroe and Edward Elgar are about as diametrically opposed as can be."
Jamie: " But I love them both!"
It is hard to hear in this magnificent voice any trappings of NW Georgia and sweet tea in her dialect.
"I think over the years, I've just naturally gone to a transatlantic kind of sound, that being said, get me around my Nanner and family and it all comes back."
Jamie is mentored by the legendary Marilyn Horne.
The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World victories has changed her life.
"This has opened an extraordinary number of doors for me. I am one lucky girl in that way."
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