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My name is Erin Ollis and I am a twenty year old singer from Holden, Massachusetts. For the past seven years I have been trained within my schools to sing classically, which tied me down to singing opera, some folk songs, and classical songs that had no true meaning to me. During high school, my choir performed with country legend, Kenny Rogers. While sharing the stage with him, I watched him sing and interact with the audience. I knew that I wanted to be just like him one day.
For my first year of college, I attended Franklin Pierce University, where I declared a major in voice performance. While at Franklin Pierce, I was chosen to be in the University Singers, which was the top choir at the college. A few months
into the year, I began noticing that the choir wasn’t doing as much performing as I hoped for. I had to make a big decision on whether to stay at Franklin Pierce and stick it out with less performance, or change my life with a completely different career.
During the summer of 2010, I made the decision to not go back to Franklin Pierce. I didn’t want to give up my dream of singing, so I began searching for a voice teacher that would help me further my career with music that I wanted to sing. I came across Bristol Studios MetroWest and their instructor Patrice Peris in college and luckily saw that she taught with Bristol Studios in Boston, so I knew that taking lessons with her would benefit me. I immediately picked up the phone to call her and after my first lesson with her, I knew that I made the right decision.
After a couple months into taking lessons, I ended up changing my entire voice. With the help of Patrice, I have been able to do performances that I never thought I would be doing, like competing in the ""New England Country Star Search"" and placing 3rd in Worcester's ""Who's Got Talent!"". I have also become more comfortable interacting with crowds and I even began writing my own songs. I am overjoyed with the progress I have made throughout the last few months, and I hope to achieve more of the goals that I have set for myself and move forward as a pop/country artist. I plan to continue taking voice lessons through Bristol Studios because they have helped me to step outside my comfort shell and strive for what I’ve always wanted, which is to be a true performer.
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