People emigrate to America for many reasons.
Today on New American Voices we'll introduce you to a Turkish ballerina who left behind everything that was familiar and followed her American soldier husband to the New World. Esra Ozben is a strikingly beautiful Turkish woman with red hair and copper skin that she inherited from some distant Sudanese and Egyptian ancestors. A native of Istanbul, at the age of twelve Esra won a full scholarship to study ballet at the Ankara State Conservatory. After graduation, nine years later, she was offered a position with a renowned ballet company in Germany. Well, it was very unplanned.