Lila McConigley still doesn’t know what made her raise her
hand when she was ten years old and the director of her
prestigious children’s chorale asked who was trying out for
the solo. She only knows the wonder she felt when, out of 80
children, she was chosen. Standing on the stage, two months
later, in front of 1500 people, she felt she had come home.

One year later, Lila was on the stage at Lincoln Center in
New York City singing a solo with the American Symphony
Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Company. Following this
concert, the head of music at the university in her home-
town of Casper, Wyoming, realized her potential and began
to tutor her privately. In the next five years, Lila went on
to win competition after competition, wowing the judges
with her pure, sweet voice, which could switch from classical
to jazz to pop effortlessly. She became a treasured and popular
singer in the region, traveling extensively to perform at all
types of events, including national basketball and football
games, rodeos and even monster truck shows. “Those
experiences made me who I am today as a singer. I was
so happy to perform to such warm, supportive crowds
that loved my voice.”

After graduating from high school, Lila went on to study
music at St.Olaf College, singing and touring with the world
famous St. Olaf Choir. Upon graduating, she moved to New
York City, where she did a graduate theater program at The
Manhattan School of Music, finally landing her dream job on
the children’s television show, Sesame Street. She remembers
getting in the elevator the first day at the studio with the
actor who plays ‘Big Bird’ and bursting into tears when he
asked her to push the button for floor 2. “I was so embarrassed,
but he had the same speaking voice as Big Bird and it was
like meeting your best old friend from childhood. I apologized
and he reassured me that happened to him a lot.”

After working at Sesame Street for a few years, still greatly
inspired by opera, Lila went to Florence, Italy to study with
famous maestro and renowned Italian tenor, Franco Pagliacci.
He was so taken with her voice and spirit that he asked her
to join his studio as one of his singers. For the next three years,
she sang all over Tuscany and became fluent in Italian. In
the spring of 2003, Lila was accepted into London’s famous
Royal Academy of Music’s post graduate course in Musical
Theater. She graduated with distinction and went straight into
her West End debut in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay
Dreams, a show in which she understudied the female lead.

One month after joining the show, Lila was playing the lead
to a sold out audience of 2000 people. “It was amazing to meet
and work with Andrew Lloyd Webber. I couldn’t believe it. I
remember being a little girl sitting in a Denver audience of
Phantom of the Opera. I never would have believed I would
one day be starring in one of his shows!” During her year in
the show, Lila met and worked with many London and
Broadway directors, producers and composers, earning
places in two new workshops, as well as flying out to New
York City as Sir Andrew’s guest to sing the lead in the
American launch of Bombay Dreams on Broadway.

Since leaving the show, Lila has starred in several shows,
commercials, and recorded four albums, including The Attic,
by famous European composer Gábor Presser, who loved her
voice so much he flew her to Budapest to record a song he had
specially written for her. She has sung in concert with Sir
Elton John, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She
is the regular guest Diva of famous British opera group
Tenors Unlimited and has performed all over Europe with
them, including their concert at the Villa Versace, Lake
Como, Italy.

Born to a father from Ireland and a mother from India and
raised in the United States, her beautiful exotic looks and
unique style set her apart from the rest. Her versatile voice
is trained as a classical soprano but she moves into jazz,
country, gospel and pop with consummate ease. As sold-out
audiences to her concerts can attest, her golden voice and
enchanting presence makes her loved by all.