at the age of 15, her parents sent her for vocal coaching in manhattan, n.y. after a while her coach sent her to record a demonstration record in a sound studio near broadway. upon hearing her sing, the sound engineer contacted his friend who was a producer of a small record company in n.y.c.; he was impressed by her voice and immediately signed her to a contract. the singer's mother co-signed the document since baron was a fifteen-year-old minor at the time.