Stacie Orrico

Stacie Orrico Joy ( born March 3, 1986 in Seattle ) is an American pop singer. She was discovered in her youth at a Christian talent contest and has since released three albums.

Biography

Childhood and youth

Stacie Orrico was in Seattle, the daughter of Christian parents with ao Italian and German roots born. Orrico has an older brother, an older sister and two twin siblings.

Both parents traveled a lot, even to proselytize to. Therefore, and because the family moved frequently for professional reasons, Stacie Orrico attended, among others, the Ukraine and Hawaii. Currently (as of July 2008), she returned to live in Seattle. She grew up with a wide range of musical styles and was a member of the choir. In the family, many Christian songs were sung. Your personal taste tended toward R & B and soul, which is why it shows influences from Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill. She plays piano since early childhood. At the age of 6 she wrote her first song called Always answer.

Music career

Stacie Orricos career began at age twelve at the Christian music festival Praise in the Rockies in Colorado. She had inadvertently enrolled and won the talent competition. Fore Front Records offered her a then record contract, which she accepted also.

At the age of 14, she released her first album titled Genuine. The most successful title of this album was the single Do not Look at Me, which was ten weeks at the top of the Christian sales charts. The album had two more number - one - and three other top ten successes in the Christian charts.

Their next release was the album Stacie Orrico in 2003. Could claim a place in the Top 200 of the U.S. sales charts. The first single was called stucco, which made ​​it to the top 5 charts in Germany and elsewhere. With their connection tracks ( There's Gotta Be) More to Life could not build on the success of stucco, but was also represented in the international charts. This was followed by the singles and I Promise I Could Be the One. Stacie Orrico sold over 500,000 times in the United States, reaching gold status there.

Then Orrico paused. In Los Angeles, she then took on her new album Beautiful Awakening, released in August 2006 in Europe and January 2007 in the United States. The pre- publication on the Internet took place on July 31. For some singles she also wrote with yourself. The first single was called I'm Not Missing You.

Discography

Albums

• 2000: Genuine
• 2003: Stacie Orrico
• 2006: Beautiful Awakening

Singles

• 2003: ( There's Gotta Be) More to Life
• 2004: I Promise
• 2004: I Could Be the One
• 2006: I'm Not Missing You
• 2007: So Simple