You know her as HBO's sassy Meadow Soprano, but in real life, Jamie-Lynn Sigler is an aspiring pop star. Having seen Jamie-Lynn singing a short tune on The Sopranos, record producers saw in the nineteen-year-old potential of the next teen-princess. Amongst a hectic filming schedule, and an approaching stint on the road in a musical version of Cinderella, Jamie-Lynn's been in and out of the studio writing and recording her debut album, From Here to Heaven. We met Jamie-Lynn, accompanied by her mom, in the Manhattan recording studio and sat down with her to discuss The Sopranos, being mistaken for Italian, and the process of recording a hopeful-hit record.

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You've started out with a part on the Sopranos which has become a cultural phenomenon, and now you're recording your own album. How does this feel?

I feel extremely blessed that I have the opportunity to be recording in music right now. Most people obviously do know me as Meadow Soprano and think I'm Italian and, you know, an actress. I'm not Italian, I'm half Cuban and half Jewish. It's something that people don't know about me. All of my training and all of my background is with music and dancing and musical theater. That's how I stated and truthfully I never thought about venturing into film and looked what happened. And the same with the recording industry. I never really thought about becoming a recording artist and I'm just having so much fun and I'm glad I've had this opportunity to show other people what I can do.

How did the recording first come about?

I think someone had heard me sing, I think it was TLC's "No Scrubs," on one of the episodes. I was just playing around with one of my friends and [they] did a little research and found out that I in fact did sing and approached my agency and it all just fell together.

What type of music were you interested in recording?

Most of my experience with music was musical theater which is strictly Broadway and things like that, but I love pop and I love radio and I'm always listening to music rather than watching television. I really wanted to incorporate my Latin roots into my music. I'm really in touch with my Latin heritage, my Mom is always educating us about her background and things like that. It's just something I didn't want to ignore and forget about and I felt what better way to incorporate it than to incorporate it into my music.

Did you train as a singer?

I've been taking voice lessons since I was eight-years-old and still continuing while I was filming Sopranos, but really wasn't putting much use to it because the filming schedule was so grueling and, you know, it was difficult to do anything else. Now fortunately, these guys [producers] are in New York, and I'm able to film one day and any day I'm not filming or on the weekends it's when I'm here. It may sound like a crazy schedule but I love it, I love being busy and having a lot of things to do. I'm sure if I had one day off and I'm sitting there resting I get antsy and I want to be out there working.

What was it like for you when you first walked into the recording studio?

I was never in a recording studio before so it took a while for me to get used to it, but I love it. They'll turn the lights down low when I'm recording in here and it's just me and the music. It's something I've never done before and I love it. I'm the girl to be sitting in my apartment singing along with the r