Excellent.
What type of acts finished ahead of her?
Was opera music frowned upon or something?
Anyway, well done Xana!
Congrats JD.
Whats next after high school?
Thanks for the kind words everybody. The girl who won song a broadway style song. It's actually the same song she did a few weeks ago in Shrek the Musical that the school performed. She's really good, IMO she was second best behind my daughter.
They don't have anything against opera per se, the judges are 4 teachers and the superintendent. I guess they just didn't
have ears think she was that good.
Not sure what's next as far as performing, she doesn't take singing terribly seriously - it's not on the radar as a potential profession at this point. She was leaning towards criminal justice, but her voice coach has been really pushing her to study opera or some type of vocals at college. She really likes to sing on stage, so we'll see. The issue is that she really only wants to sing opera, she's really good at belting (broadway style singing) - at least according to her voice coach. She has absolutely no interest in that though, and at one point gave up singing lessons because he kept pushing her to belt.
She did do a duet with a boy from the school in the talent show though, and that wasn't operatic. She still kind of sounds like she's singing an opera, but the song is apparently from a show. My wife recorded that (luckily, since I screwed it up) and I'll probably get the poor shaky footage of it from her and post that as well.
