Hearing my mother sing when I was younger inspired me to love and appreciate music, but it took one elementary school talent show to be the catalyst for my career as a singer. Since then I have been involved with school and university choirs, as well as other public events, receiving various awards and honors including the Non-Finalist Talent award at the Miss Missouri Pageant (part of the Miss America Pageant system). While attending the University of Missouri in Columbia, I was a member of University Singers, the honor choir of the university. I was also a member of Hitt Street Harmony, a small jazz choral group that helped develop my love for jazz music.

 

 

 

 

 

My musical career has taken me across the nation as well as to other parts of the world. I have traveled to, and participated in group competitions in Washington D.C., England and France. I have also traveled across the nation performing from Los Angeles to New York, Michigan to Texas. I currently perform in the Kansas City area as a lead and back-up vocalist on a variety of projects.

 

 

 

 

 

Believe it or not, I also have a few projects and talents veryfew know about.  I have some theater work in my background, which includes productions such as Big River and The Pirates of Penzance.  I also have worked as an extra for some television and flim projects such as The Parkers and Entourage.  Locally, I have recorded a radio jingle or two for Time Warner, and I was the Visit MO! voice people heard on the radio last summer. 

 

As multi-talented as I may be, my first love of course is music, and singing is what I love to do.  I was recognized by the Pitch in 2004 in their "Best Female R&B Performer," and I was the winner of Bar Natasha Idol 2006. I also have been recognized by the KC Star in 2006 as being one of "...Kansas City's emerging artists on the cusp of fame," in the article "On the Verge."

 

Other than that, I have a cello, a piano, and a guitar for my own pleasure.  However, the only thing you will see in my hands besides a microphone will be a tambourine, and I do play a mean tambourine if I do say so myself.