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August 30, 2000
Music
Mikaila from page 2
at sporting events. Soon she was something o f a regular attraction at Texas
Rangers games - belting out the National Anthem as easy as if it were the
ABCs.
Enter manager Marty Rendleman. “Someone called Marty and said, ‘ You
have to listen to this girl who sings at the Rangers games,” Mikaila says.
“But she used to manage LeAnn Rimes - and she’d sworn offchildren. She
was like ‘Call me when she gets her drivers license!” Ultimately, Rendleman
was persuaded to hear Mikaila perform - and she promptly lifted her ban
on kids.
Next, Mikaila was appearing on national television and at other events,
including her Carnegie hall debut as the sole featured vocalist with the U.S.
Army Concert Band and the 53"* Presidential Inaugural. Not surprisingly,
she was courted by many a record company. “We came to New York and
in one day had meetings with all the top record labels,” Mikaila recalls. She
was signed to Island Records by Senior VP Jeff Fenster, who’d come to
the label from Jive Records, where he’d brought in Backstreet Boys and
Brittney Spears.
M ikaila’s reality right now is to get out there and strut her stuff live (she’ll
tour with Brittney Spears this summer). “Being on stage, knowing that
people came to see you - that’s the best feeling in the world,” she says. As
to her effect on her audience, Mikaila adds: “I want young people,
especially girls, to be able to relate to me. I want them to know you can do
anything if you work hard.”
New as Mikaila may be to the pop scene, she’ll be working hard for a long
time.
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