"A Beautiful Awakening Has Happened in my Soul"

Born on March 3, 1986, the now 23 year old super star has made a huge impact in the pop industry and in so many people's lives. With her 3 1/2 octave voice of an angel and her versatile style in any genre, Miss Orrico is the most talented and true artist that I have personally ever encountered. The Seattle born native never thought that her talent was as great as the public eye perceived it to be. Stacie did not know that her talented singing, song writing intellect, and vivid piano skills would get her as far in her career as she ever dreamed of.
Stacie Orrico was born in Seattle, Washington to Christian missionaries Patti and Dean Orrico. Stacie Orrico was always told that she had the voice of an angel but she never thought that big record producers would be scouting and telling her the same exact things her family told her every time she opened her mouth to sing. Her family background is surrounded by music being that her father plays guitar and her mother and four other siblings all sang as well. Stacie started playing the piano at age 5 and by the age of 6 wrote her first song entitled “Always Answer” and ever since then she began writing and composing her own music along with developing the amazing 3 octave voice that she has.

Stacie and her family ventured off to a Christian musical festival where her mother entered Stacie into the contest unknowingly and she agreed to participate. By the end of the contest Orrico not only walked away from the festival a winner and very happy young lady but at the age of 12 she was also offered a record deal with ForeFront Records in which she took the offer and signed with the Christian affiliated record label in 1998 and then later switched labels and joined Virgin Records. From that day on, Stacie’s world was going in a whole new direction that she was unsure of but also very nervous and excited about; being that Stacie never had any interest in becoming a singer/artist. She had recorded her first album called Genuine in 2000 when she was at the tender age of 14 which sold over 13,000 copies in its first week of sale. Ultimately her first album ended up selling over 500,000 copies and was certified a Gold album. Later in 2003 her self-titled album Stacie Orrico was released and there were several hit singles which promoted the album enough to sell 3.4 million copies worldwide and was also nominated for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.

Stacie Orrico has toured in many places around the world including various locations in the world; just to name a few: Australia, Japan, France, and Singapore. Stacie had a very strenuous schedule when it came to touring, recording, and making music. Although she loved her fans and really enjoyed making music, one day she woke up and felt physically and emotionally exhausted in a way that really took a toll on her state of being in which she was on the brink of breaking. She had lost many friends and also lost long years of her social and personal life and growing up because of her job as a musician. She decided to take a break for a few years in which she described as her way of “reconnecting with the rest of the world.” She got to experience life in a whole new light and also in a way that she could understand why she began making music in the first place.

Once Stacie got to experience life for the first time ever since she got her record deal she began writing and got in contact with her music again and she mainly included things that she got to experience in her two to three years of off time and it soon seemed like a beautiful awakening she described and later named her new album after. Moving in a new direction in her music, Stacie reappeared on the scene in 2006 with a new album and a huge realm of songs in which focused on public and personal struggles in her life that she experienced throughout and also while she was on a brief break. As she caught up on life she wrote many songs and it was said that when she came back into the studio for the first time in three years she had written 55 songs and was ready to take on the music industry once again with a huge bang. Stacie released Beautiful Awakening in 2006 to many other countries except the United States for unknown reasons. The newly released album of the time sold over 100,000 copies in Japan alone in which gave this album another Gold certified stand point. After a while Capitol Records and Virgin Records were talking about merging and as a result Stacie Orrico decided to withdraw herself from the label and took another break. In these seemingly long breaks Orrico took, I seemed to lose faith in hearing from her again. It has been nearly 4 years since Stacie has produced or even recorded anything with anyone. She had her side projects that she was working on but to my knowledge, I had not been able to hear or enjoy her uplifting music and lyrics for myself. I felt a bit disconnected from music because Stacie’s music is not only amazing, it is very vivid and paints a beautiful picture of her life and talent but also a very real, down-to-earth connection with her listeners because she talks about real-life issues taking place all around the world. Looking to the future now, Stacie has recently been working with the Creative Jenius Record label in which has been known to specialize in Hip-Hop and R&B music. The earlier rumored but recently confirmed fourth studio album is said to be released and is in production as of now including writers such as Toby Gad and Onree Gill. The album is to be released sometime in 2010, most likely the mid to end of this year. Hopefully Orrico will have as many hits as she has had in her past and also be able to deliver more to the United States and take the music industry by storm and take over the music industry all over again.