Petty thievery aside, that day was a major one for Bingham, and soon she was on the set and in the studio, performing as the 1920s chanteuse who would be such a major part of “Boardwalk Empire’s” anticipated fourth season.
“It was all very quick. I don’t think I ever got to really sit down and think about it too much,” Bingham says of her first few weeks. “They kept calling and asking me to hold more dates and writing me into the script more and more. And I never really had the time to process any of it because every single day [that] I wasn’t filming, I was in the recording studio. I was kind of doing double duty.”
Double duty wasn’t new territory for the talented singer, actress and model. She’d been primed for stardom since before grade school.
“I’ve always known that I wanted to do performing arts since I was 2 years old,” shares Bingham. “It was something that my parents put me in as a kid for extracurricular activities; singing, dancing acting. And you could never shut me up in cars [when] I was singing with radios. I just always knew that singing and performing was something that I enjoyed doing.”
She landed work as a model and attended a performing arts high school and both her acting talents and her love of music were nurtured throughout her formative years.
“There’s a lot of jazz, a lot of poets that came out of Pittsburgh. [There’s] a good hip-hop scene; Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller are from there. But there’s a huge jazz scene from Pittsburgh,” she says.
