User blog:BeccaSchmecca/Unbelievable Facts About Althea

Today, I found a list of unbelievable about Greek-born New Zealand jazz crossover singer Althea.

WARNING: These facts are guaranteed to blow your mind, even if you're not a fan.

She makes grown-up dress choices
Althea has always wanted to dress more grown-up for a preteen. She's been thinking about this when preparing for her debut concert tour, which didn't start until summer 2012. In fact, Althea wore an ankle-length dress and went barefoot on the front cover of her debut album, which she released in early spring of that year; she was 12 years of age when the album showed up. During her concert tours, Althea wears floor-length dresses designed by the once-unknown Luther Forsman. During the 2012 tour, Althea's heeled sandals were 1½ inches. Since then, and even today, her parents are so proud of her for making these decisions! :)

She's a home-schooled student
From September 2005 to late May 2006, Alexis Glezos went to kindergarten at a private school in Athens, the Greek capital city. Sadly, Glezos was often harassed a lot during then. The worst of those days resulted in her having slight forehead injuries in February 2006, a month after her 6th birthday. Nevertheless, her parents were forced to sue the school for the way those other kids were behaving. The Glezos family moved to New Zealand in late August of the same year, for which Glezos is now home-schooled. Glezos, who is also the now superstar Althea, name-checked several of her worst bullies in a Rolling Stone interview in 2013.

She's surprisingly multilingual
Besides English and Greek, Althea also speaks German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, and a little Italian. In fact, she's been learning all of those languages via Rosetta Stone since 2009.

Her repertoire is similar to Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald
You can tell because Althea's songs are heavily influenced by Broadway. :)