And Goudeau, who moved to Queens six years ago to pursue her New York City opera dreams, is asking the borough to vote for one of their own. On Tuesday they will need to garner the same reaction from viewers.

“That was a moment and that was your moment,” Mel B said, adding that the performance made the hair on her arms stand up. The judges not only accepted the art form, but were surprised by their voices. The pair both had their “afros out” and dressed like “everyday people.” “We were so nervous that wouldn’t accept opera,” she said.

The same weekend they were set to have their first concert, at the First AME Church: Bethel in Harlem, where Goudeau is currently an artist-in-residence, “America’s Got Talent” was holding auditions. “We wanted to make our own opportunities,” Goudeau said. The name and the group came to represent more. “So we were like, why don’t we make this official?” “We enjoyed singing together,” Goudeau said.

The idea for Acte II started as way for them to find more singing opportunities in Europe and to do a concert tour. They grew closer when they both were a part of Opera New Jersey one summer. It was also at Dillard that she met Watkins, but they didn’t become friends until Goudeau was working on her master’s degree at the University of Oklahoma and Watkins was one of several Dillard students the school hosted following Hurricane Katrina. But to her surprise, she learned the classics and her passion for opera was born. After switching from a computer science major to music, she thought her program would focus on jazz music, since she was attending Dillard University in New Orleans.

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