Early Life
Danielle de Niese was born in Melbourne, Australia, after her parents, Chris and Beverly, had migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia as teenagers — she is a Sri Lankan Burgher of mostly Dutch heritage. In 1988, at the age of 9, she became the youngest winner of the Australian TV talent competition, Young Talent Time, singing a Whitney Houston medley, for which the prize was A$ 5,000 and a Yamaha baby grand piano, which she still owns.
In 1990, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she became a regular guest host of the TV programme L.A. Kids for which she won an Emmy Award at the age of 16.
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