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ALLISON IRAHETA
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Allison Iraheta, born April 27, 1992 in Glendale, Calif., was 10 years old when she viewed the first season of “American Idol” in 2002. “My parents, my sister and I would sit down and watch. Seeing the contestants who were older than me opened my eyes as to what I wanted to do with my life. I kept watching; I have literally seen every season and I can tell you about every finalist because I remember everything about them.”
Right from the age of five, television was Allison’s window into the world of music. Her parents watched MTV and Spanish music stations. Even before that, Allison’s mother, Sara, would take her daughter to work at the hospital where she was a cashier in the cafeteria. “I’d wander off and go up to random people and start singing to them,” Allison recalls. “Mostly it was Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ from ‘Titanic.’”
The soundtrack to that all-time box office champ was a strong influence on young Allison, but so were her parents’ musical tastes. “My dad, Carlos, listened to a lot of classic rock, including Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. My mom was a huge ABBA fan and listened to Spanish music, which is why I started singing in Spanish, even though I didn’t know the language back then.” Then there were the R&B albums that Allison would ask her older sister to buy for her, by artists like K-Ci & JoJo and TLC. And her brother, Carlos Jr., taught her to play guitar. “I’m the youngest, so whatever my brother and sister did, I wanted to do,” explains Allison. “When my brother picked up the guitar, it looked like fun, so I thought I would play, too.”
Allison was just six when she made her professional singing debut at a community event for La Curaçao, a local Latin supermarket. “There were about 600 people in the audience. My whole family came. My dad was nervous and I was nervous, too. I ended up singing there every weekend.”
Growing up, Allison took voice lessons from private coaches and sang with her high school chorus. She performed at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood... More
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