I've been following this discussion for a while and if it's any consolation, a friend of mine has no music background whatsoever other than an AMAZING voice and was recently accepted into the Scottish Academy of Music on the postgraduate Classical singer/opera course!!
The little music history she knows is from me giving her my notes from music college. A week ago I had to explain to her what a fugue was and when she stared at me blankly holding a piece of Schoenberg she has to learn, she got her first lesson on 12-tone technique!!
The majority of people on this list will have a much more solid music basis than she has. To emphasize how bad it is, she wouldn't even be able to tell you what key she was in but the IMPORTANT point is that she has an amazing voice, incredible talent and she doesn't want to be an academic, she wants to be a performer.
She is perfectly capable of learning and performing her pieces and I'm sure you are too. I spent three years of music college learning all the history and learning to write fugues and all that stuff and do you think anyone cares now? I often regret that I ended up on such an academic course because three years of writing fugues sure didn't help me to play them better on the piano!!!!!
Follow your dream and focus on them: performing!!!!!! Good luck!!! Kirsty
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