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| Skye Sweetnam |
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"Anyone that falls asleep on the [tour] bus is going to get Sharpie on their face saying, 'Skye was here.'"
--Skye Sweetnam
| Date of Birth: May 5, 1988 |
| Birthplace: Bolton, Canada |
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| Skye toured with Britney Spears before even turning 16; now she's gaining fame in her own right. Her recent debut album, Noise from the Basement, featured such hit singles as "Billy S." and "Tangled Up In Me." |
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| Skye Sweetnam has a precocious, infectious energy, coupled with a talent that's strong beyond her years. But, for all her maturity, she still has a spontaneous and irrepressible sense of mischief. |
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Skyelett Amilia Sweetnam was born on May 5, 1988, in Bolton, Canada, a small town near Toronto. With no movie theaters or malls nearby, Skye grew up entertaining herself -- something she was eager to do. She took vocal and dance lessons, performed in school plays, shot self-portraits, filmed her own stop-action movies, learned guitar and piano, designed clothes, and drew cartoons. At age 9, in the midst of all this creative output, Skye wrote her first song. At 12, Skye inadvertently began on the road that would lead her to pop stardom. Skye's mother, meaning to enroll her daughter in a snowboarding camp, accidentally signed her up for "Popstar" camp. Skye went anyway, and kicked off the experience there with a rendition of Britney Spears' "Stronger." Upon hearing Skye's vocal abilities, the camp director encouraged her to cut a demo, which she did.
Another twist of fate moved Skye even closer to a music career. Her grandmother had her perform for friends in a local hair salon; one of the women in attendance had a brother who worked as an entertainment lawyer. After passing on Skye's demo to him, he in turn gave it to a manager, and it eventually ended up in the hands of James Robertson, a 21-year-old guitarist, bass player and keyboardist fresh out of college. Skye and Robertson became collaborators, jamming together in Robertson's parents' basement.
Skye's first single, "Billy S.," was the fruit of these sessions. The song, a riff on having to study Shakespeare in school (hence the title), became an instant success. It reached No. 1 on The Hit List, a Canadian preteen charts show. Having peaked in Canada, Skye began to make inroads south of the border. She made her American television debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn in June of 2003. A month later, "Billy S." could be heard in the Mandy Moore movie How To Deal. |
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