A singer/songwriter who sang on-stage with Keith Urban during one of his concerts, she has won titles as Female Vocalist New Country, Traditional Country and Gospel as well as Female Entertainer of the Year. Based in Boston, she has performed throughout the New England area and hopes to be recording her first EP in a couple months in New York. She also talks about her experiences auditioning for various reality shows.
“I find it really important to thank the people who are supporting you, because if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be able to go out and do some gigs and sing. So I really appreciate all the things that they could do for me.”
“Simply sharing my music page on their Facebook page, it means the world to me, and I don’t think that a lot of people realize that, but that’s how a lot of my music has been spread around, so just the simple act of sharing that, I just want to make sure they’re aware of how appreciative I am.”
“Sing out as much as you possibly can.”
“I usually, if I have the opportunity to ask people who have gone far in their music career, I usually just, ‘Hey what kind of advice would you give to someone in my shoes where I’m just starting out’ and a lot of times they’re really happy to just answer with the best answers that they can come up with.”
“If there’s an opportunity for me to go and perform, I usually will take it.”
“I saw all of these big sporting events as an opportunity to possibly have me sing in front of the amount of people that are at the venue, and I thought, ‘Well I think I should sing the national anthem.’”
“It can be nerve-wracking if you don’t know how to handle your nerves because during the national anthem versus singing any other song, people have to be quiet and they have to listen and they have to stare at you. So, it gives me the opportunity to kind of get over nerves, and I have.”
“I usually don’t get too nervous in front of an audience, especially if I’m singing the national anthem, just because I’ve sang it so many times that’s it’s kind of drilled into my head. But when I stand in front of a large audience such as the one at New Hampshire Motor Speedway where there was 100,000 people there, I just basically – in my head, looking around – think, ‘Oh my gosh, well, I kind of deserve to be here anyway because I’ve worked really really hard and I’ve auditioned for this and they invited me to sing, so I shouldn’t be nervous because they know that I can do it.”
“We have a lot of fun when we’re rehearsing too. I hate thinking about rehearsing and having people get, you know, ‘Oh, I have to go rehearse,’ because, well, we have a lot of fun when we do it. So, if it’s not fun, then what’s the good in that? We have a lot of good laughs during our rehearsal time. So as long as everyone’s having a good time they can’t complain.”
“The only thing I have to really think about is, if I have an opportunity to have a gig on the same day as an audition, do I take the gig or do I take the audition? That’s, a lot of the times I’m like, Well, I should probably do the gig because it’s an automatic that I’m going to be singing that day versus standing in line for 12 hours.”
“I’ve noticed that every time I audition I get one step further. Every single time. So, that’s why I continue to audition, because I learned how to get past the first few rounds. Now I just have to get past the producers and I’ll be all set.”
"Summer Nights"
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