Measha Brueggergosman
| Measha Brueggergosman | |
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| Born |
June 28, 1977 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Measha Gosman |
| Occupation | Singer, stage actress |
| Spouse(s) | Markus Bruegger (1999-present; 2 children) |
Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards. Her recordings of both classical and popular music have also received awards.
She was born Measha Gosman in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to Anne Eatmon and Sterling Gosman of Fredericton, New Brunswick. As a child, Gosman began singing in the choir of her local Baptist church, where father served as a deacon. She studied voice and piano from the age of seven. As a teen, she took voice lessons in her home town, and spent summers on scholarships at the Boston Conservatory and at a choral camp in Rothesay, New Brunswick. She studied for one year with New Brunswick soprano Wendy Nielsen, before moving on to studies at the University of Toronto, where she obtained a B.Mus. She went to Germany for five years, where she pursued a Master's degree at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She married Marcus Brügger, born in Germany. They first met in high school, when he was an exchange student in New Brunswick. When they married, they combined their last names to Brüggergosman (also spelled Brueggergosman). They have two sons.
In 2007, Brueggergosman discovered her family's deep history in Canada and the United States. Her paternal 4xgreat-grandparents were John Gosman and his wife Rose, African Americans who each escaped from slavery in New England colonies during the American Revolution by going to British lines. John was from Connecticut and Rose from Rhode Island. They probably met in New York City, then occupied by the British. The British gave freedom to American slaves who left rebel slaveholders and sought refuge with them. Tens of thousands of slaves, mostly in the South, took advantage of the war's chaos to escape, so many that the plantations were disrupted in South Carolina and Virginia, especially.
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