Chapter one: This is my story
I've been singing since I was old enough to talk; however my first performance was when I was four years-old. I remember it just like it was yesterday. My parents used to brag about my ability to sing to anyone who would listen, it just so happened that they told the right person. They ended up talking to the head of our local minor league baseball team. Upon hearing of my amazing voice he asked if they would consider allowing me to sing the national anthem at their game on Saturday. My mother immediately agreed and that was how I got my first performance. Now unfortunately, my parents videotaped my performance and for years showed it at every family reunion along with my other performances.
When I was five years old I played simba in The Lion King, my favorite part was when I got to sing The Circle of Life with the entire cast we even had kids in the back dressed up as blades of grass singing "In the meadow". It was so much fun, and even I have to admit I looked absolutely adorable in my costume. It was full lion body suit with ears and everything. I think I also wore it for Halloween that year.
When I was six years old I moved up to a more mature role on the stage, I played Arielle from The Little Mermaid. I got to sing and dance, and at age I was most excited about getting to wear a wig. My mother made a glitter bikini top and a tail that could come off. I don't remember most of the actual play but I do remember singing Under The Sea with this boy named Mark, at the time I had thought he was cute I was only five, he played Sebastian and had to wear a huge crab costume.
When I was seven years old I performed in Aladdin, I got to be Jasmine. Of all the outfits hers was by far the coolest, to me at the time, because my mom actually went out and bought me a Jasmine costume. The only reason she did was because she was pregnant with twins and wasn't up to making me an outfit. I wasn't all that disappointed; at seven it was cooler to have bought the costume then to have your mom make it. The best part of the play was when we sang A Whole New World, because we had bought a little rug and taped it to a box mover and were riding around it while we sang. Unfortunately when we were riding off stage we crashed. It was pretty funny though, just not at the time.
When I was eight I decided I didn't want to act anymore I just wanted to sing, I figured I really wasn't all that good an actress anyway. I only got the leads for my amazing voice. So I stopped acting, but the summer going into third grade The Cheetah Girls hit the scene and my three best friends and me fell in love with them. That year the four of us signed up for the talent show, labeling ourselves The Cheetah Girls. We sang If I Never Knew You the crowd loved us. All three of my friends, Emily, Megan, and Charlotte, were good singers. We were amazing and every year afterward we sang a Cheetah Girl song in the talent show.
When I was thirteen years old, Emily, Megan, Charlotte and I faced the decision of what high school we were going to go. We all realized we were growing up and that this would be our last Cheetah performance. So we sang at the talent show, and then at our eighth grade graduation we sang Amigas, Cheetahs for our last and final performance together.
However I continued on performing in my new school. In ninth grade, at age fourteen I alone signed up for the talent show. Emily, Megan and Charlotte all chose the same school as I did, but decided they really didn't want to perform anymore. So I performed in the winter talent show alone. I performed Come Back To Me by Vanessa Hudgens. Everyone loved it and my high school career was set. That same year I performed Promiscuous in the spring talent show with my boyfriend Alec. Both the students and the teachers loved, my parents weren't crazy about my choice music but they thought I sang beautifully.
This brings me to recently; when I performed Unfaithful in the fall talent show I got the surprise of my life. One of the parents in the audience was a Music producer and while there watching his daughter perform he saw me and loved me. Which brings me to my current situation. Can I make it the real world?