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" HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN THE BUSINESS? I grew up in a really small town, LaGrange, Georgia. There weren&amp;#039;t a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings. When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said I wanted to pursue my dream of acting. At the end of my high school career, they quit their jobs and we moved out to California on a leap of faith. WHAT KIND OF MUSICIAN DO YOU WANT TO BE KNOWN AS? I want to be known as an entertainer. I think in this day and age, it&amp;#039;s evident that the industry is going toward triple threats. I think it started that way, then it went to straight movie stars and music stars, and now it&amp;#039;s back to that triple threat. I want to be a part of that. I have to work harder to be where I want to be, but I feel like if we put everything in the right places and all the chips are on the line, I think it&amp;#039;s very attainable for people like myself. WHAT IS THE STYLE OF YOUR MUSIC? It&amp;#039;s pop-soul. There are songs that are musically mind-boggling. There are songs where it&amp;#039;s just my voice and an acoustic guitar, and then there are ballads. It&amp;#039;s a lot of different styles of music, but it&amp;#039;s all me. I have songs about falling in and out of love, and the whole courting process of meeting a girl and trying to get to know her. WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING ON HAIRSPRAY WITH SO MANY BIG-NAME STARS? I was starstruck over Christopher Walken. I was excited to be working with people like Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. It was, like, two to three generations of phenomenal entertainers. It was like being accepted into this sort of exclusive family, and when you&amp;#039;re there it feels very special and you feel very prestigious to be a part of such a great thing. WE HEARD RUMORS OF AN INFAMOUS TRAIN RIDE TO BALTIMORE WITH THE WHOLE CAST. WERE YOU THERE? Yeah. Everybody was like, &amp;quot;Are we really about to get on a train?&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ve never ridden a train to get to a destination. It&amp;#039;s either been car or plane. There was no TV and the food was horrible. They had salami strips and olive loaves. How do you compact olives into a loaf and serve it as a delicacy? I was like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m straight. Just give me a pillow and some cheese crackers.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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