Heather Headley -Performing & Recording Artists  Born : 10/05/1974 Country : Trinidad and Tobago
Best known for/as: Tony award winning actress for Lead Role in Broadways Aida

After winning honors as best new solo artiste for her hit “He is” and copping best solo effort of the year with her album “This is Who I am” one would believe that Trinidad-born Heather Headley’s successful lifestyle couldn’t get better than that.

It did however as Headley added one more hit to her life, namely, “I do”, not to be fooled though, this isn’t one of her latest tunes but actually what she said last Saturday as wedding bells rang in acceptance of her husband, Chicago businessman, Brian Musso.

Described by Headley’s publicist as ‘simply fabulous’, the wedding took place in Chicago and was attended by the couple’s family and friends. Musso and Headley have known each other quite sometime as their knowledge of each other dates back to their college days but they were officially an “item” for the past two years. Musso is also an ex-New York Jets footballer and first visited our shores with Headley three years ago to attend a reception at the President’s House when the then President was Arthur NR Robinson. The reception was held in Headley’s honor to commemorate her gaining the prominent Tony Award for the Disney Broadway hit, Aida.

In illustrating her emotions toward her “second half”, Heather excitedly explained, “I never experienced anything like this is my life. He is my soul mate. The love that we feel for each other has truly proven to me that love has no colour.” The talented and soulful R&B singer and her companion as reportedly stated are now on their secret honeymoon.
She will make her film debut in "The Break Up Handbook," starring Jamie Foxx and Morris Chestnut. She'll also have a cameo appearance in "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," the record label said.

Both films are scheduled for release in 2004

Biography: Born in Barataria Trinidad Heather Headley began competing in the performing arts at an early age. At the age of four she started piano lessons and began playing concert piano.

At the age of 15, Heather and her family moved to Fort Wayne , Indiana . After three years of being the featured soloist of her schools show choir, and the lead in two of the schools musicals (Man of La Mancha and Funny Girl), she graduated from Northrop High School and went on to study Communications and Musical theater at Northwestern University. While there, she performed in the universitys main stage productions and as the lead in Dream Girls and The World Goes 'Round at one of Chicagos foremost regional theaters, the Marriott Lincolnshire Theater.

In 1996 towards the end of her third year at Northwestern she joined the cast in the pre-Broadway cast of Ragtime. In 1997, six months after she left school to pursue her dream, Disney offered her an opportunity to play the role of Nala, the feisty lioness, in what would become one of the greatest successes of Broadway History The Lion King.

Disney approached Heather and asked her to audition for their new musical Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aïda, The score was written by the multi-award winning team of Sirs Elton John and Tim Rice and in she landed the title role in February of 1998. The story of Aïda tells of a Nubian princess stolen from her country, enslaved by Radames (played by Adam Pascal) and offered as a gift to the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris (Sherie René Scott). The two princesses become friends and Radames falls in love with Aida despite his betrothal to Amneris.

In May 1999, while starring in the Encores! Production of Do Re Mi Heather received a Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical among several other accolades for her performance as Aïda. Her debut album with RCA Records was released in the fall of 2001 and went platinum.

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