She has held the distinction of the youngest headlining singer to perform on “The Strip” and has been praised by Robin Leach as “Las Vegas favorite.” Plus, she was among MyVEGAS Magazine’s “Top 100 Women of Influence in Las Vegas.” She has headlined multiple shows on the Las Vegas “Strip,” been a lead vocalist in the supper club inside the Bellagio, also runs a corporate band, and even owns her own vocal studio. In late 2018 she released an EP and is still signed to that record label. She also has overcome two extreme physical injuries and is deeply involved with a non-profit called Positively Arts.
"One of my songs I co-wrote with Fervor Records... a spectacular indie label... They are all about placement in TV and film... They had written this song alongside me to be placed in a couple of TV shows and films that I cannot disclose yet."
"They had heard some of my music... and, they reached out to me! They said, 'Hey, we think your vibe and your look and your sound is perfect for the missing piece of the puzzle' ... So, they signed me on!"
"I took a class, a songwriting class, at Berklee School of Music while I was going to school there at Boston Conservatory and thought it was interesting, but I'm very in-my-head. I have a hard time not editing myself and I struggled with songwriting."
"I'm (at the Mayfair Supper Club in the Bellagio) a couple days a week and do this extravagant, elaborate show... The show opened New Year's Eve of this last year and I was one of two original singers cast for it."
"As I started getting a bit more notoriety in town and a reputation, people would approach me with auditions."
"I am so grateful that we got to be affiliated with Broadway World... my friend... wanted to reach out to some entertainers that he respected; not just in Vegas, but, in the Broadway circuit and in the Los Angeles circuit. He picked basically two or three acts in Vegas, two or three acts in New York City and then two or three in L.A... and said, 'We want you guys to put on a show... and after you guys make enough ticket sales, you guys can keep the rest.' So, it was a way for us to make some money, but, even more important than that... it was an opportunity for us to have art again."
"We filmed it... one time, one take, live."
"If there's anything I've learned being successful in Vegas and unsuccessful in Vegas, is, don't allow people to employ you. Find ways to employ yourself. There is an opportunity for art to be made all the time. And if you mix art with business you get a product."
"I decided to create a corporate band because I was seeing all these corporate bands from Los Angeles... coming to Vegas for these events, getting put up in these fancy hotels, and I'm like, 'What?! We can do that! I have Sly and the Family Stone's bass player and musical director in my camp. Why can't we create a corporate band'?"
"A couple of years ago I had hemorrhaged my vocal cords and then, basically, my vocal cords atrophied. They froze up. I had almost no movement, partial paralysis on one of the cords... I injured my voice to the point where we were worried my career was going to be over."
"I had spent the majority of my early career saying Yes to anything and everything, even if it was at the detriment of my health."
"I got ran over by two huge dogs, bigger than me. They were sprinting after a tennis ball and they ran me over. And I fractured my T3, T4, and just above my coccyx, my spine. And it was right around my ribcage, so I had a hard time breathing."
"To go through that voice injury in conjunction with that back injury, I lost my physical identity and I lost my entire, like, soul."
"You just have to keep pushing yourself and allowing yourself to overcome obstacles and not let them defeat you or even trump you in any way, shape, or form."
"My home has been Vegas. I grew up looking at billboards of people and I wanted to be on 'em. And made that reality come true."
"Get Closer to Me"
"Don't You Ever Give Up"
** Bonus content with Lisa Marie Smith **