When Bri Sudia was growing up near Princeton, New Jersey, her parents made sure that she was introduced to a wide spectrum of singers, songs and theater – from the community level to Broadway. Her dad brought home cast albums to feed her passion for emulating the vocal styles and techniques of the performers and trying to figure out exactly how they created their unique sound. “I just remember sponging all of that goodness up,” she told me, “and remembering all the performances that affected me as a kid.”