Originally from Homer, Alaska, she says the two towns could not be more opposite in nature. Needing a short-term profitable job to enable her singing career, Emily tells MiLLENNiAL, “We were the only ones crazy enough to do it.” Her friend and cast-mate, Zeke Tenhoff, convinced Emily and her father Steve that they could make good money dredging for gold in Nome, Alaska. It all started when she returned from college. Her vision and willpower, however, have never been more tested as the pursuit of gold has become much harder than expected. Now the only female cast member of Discovery Channel’s Bering Sea Gold, Emily is determined to one-day study opera in Vienna, Austria by earning enough money from dredging. Emily has dreamed about becoming an international opera singer since studying vocal performance at the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts.īut not being able to afford the next step in her training, lead her to dredge for gold as her means to an end. Classical opera and gold dredging couldn’t be further apart, but for 26-year-old Alaskan native, Emily Riedel, the two are equally closer to her heart.
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