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Lauren Babrée ( pronounced Baw-bray ) is a professional singer , actress , and model . She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire , which is also home to Adam Sandler , Sarah Silverman , and Seth Meyers .
Lauren started out as a dancer as her mother enrolled her in ballet , tap , and jazz at the early age of 3 . As she got such a young start in the arts , she also grew up being influenced by music at a young age as her father taught her basic notes on the piano . She also used to watch MTV and VH1 in the living room and be inspired by the sounds of specifically Mariah Carey . Her teachers took a notice to her strong energy and cast her as Rudolph in her first grade Christmas play , “ Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ”. It was from then that she started noticing being able to act out a character and not be reprimanded for acting out and being loud was so much fun on stage . Keeping the love for singing as well , she immediately signed up to be in the elementary school choir , and continued through middle school , even being selected for the “ select ” chorus , which was by audition only and few were selected .
In the 5th grade , she and one of her best friends at the time saw a local performing arts school in the town was holding auditions for a new musical . She immediately was thrilled to audition , and became a part of the cast .
When Lauren was 13 years old in the 8th grade , she knew this is what she wanted to become more serious about . Getting older and becoming a teenager , she started becoming interested in modeling as well . She heard an announcement on the radio for an open model call in Boston , and immediately told her mother about it . Being a supportive mom , her mother drove an hour down to Boston to try for the open call . Lauren made the cut . She was then asked to come back in the fall and walk the runway for their show .
As high school was approaching , she started looking into schools and deciding what she wanted to do with the rest of her life , but all she had a love for was the arts and entertainment . She was thrilled to find out colleges actually had arts and theatre programs she could major in . From then on out , Lauren made it a priority to make all her high school years devoted to this business to prepare for a future possible career . Throughout her middle and high school years , she continued to dance , sing in the choir , started taking vocal lessons , and kept doing the musicals every year . She had the opportunity to audition for Boston ’ s hip hop radio station ’ s Jam ’ n 94.5 singing contest , and won 3rd place out of many contestants .
Starting to do more research on what was needed to further her career in music and acting , she noticed it was a requirement with music to have a demo tape . She looked through the yellow pages to find some local recording studios to record some cover songs as a start . She also saw headshots were a requirement with acting , so she asked her mom to take her to New York City on a February school vacation so she
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