![]() ![]() While dancer Reshma Gajjar lip-syncs the vocals in "Another Day of Sun," the dazzling six-minute opening number that takes place in freeway gridlock hell, it is Parrish who supplies the vocals. "I knew if I didn't leave home then, I never would."Ī little more than four years later, Parrish's voice is the first one you hear in La La Land, the aspirational musical for Hollywood dreamers that swept all seven categories for which it was nominated at Sunday's Golden Globes, including best motion picture, musical or comedy. "I had a bag of bread and a jar of peanut butter, $700 and, I guess, grit," says Parrish, who was 26 at the time. Embarking from her hometown of Newton, Kansas, with a meager amount of funds and a nebulous dream, the raven-haired jazz pianist and singer set out for Los Angeles. ![]() In late September 2012, Angela Parrish loaded her aging Honda Fit, affectionately known as Tessa, with all her earthly possessions.
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