Taisa

“An 18 year old musical and visual collision of Monroe, Bassey and Winehouse” Tazz World For 18 year old Midlands singer, songwriter and actress, Taísa, the time has come. 2009 has kicked off with Taísa all over Irish television as the co-writer and singer of the Daily Mail TV year-long advertising campaign. She has also been chosen to play the lead in the independent film ‘Musik’. In February Taísa recorded her debut album, produced by the legendary British producer Nick Patrick (Gipsy Kings, Katherine Jenkins, Russell Watson) with Brit Award winning engineer Pete Schwier at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios. Her studio band was an international crème de la crème of players - Robbie McIntosh - guitars (Pretenders, Bee Gees, John Mayer), Steve Pearce - bass (Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Leona Lewis, Diana Krall), Ian Thomas - drums (Seal, Sting, Eric Clapton) and Mike Moran - keyboards (Queen, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie). The result is Taísa’s very own take on jazz - ‘Tazz’ • First TV appearance - BBC 1 News. Model Search. @ 5yrs old. 1995 • British Isles slow dance champion, under 10s @ 9yrs. 1999 • Winner of the ASDA Stars in Their Eyes final as Whitney Houston @ 10yrs. 2000 • Winner of the National Youth Talent Show Cannons Cup. @ 11yrs. 2000. • Finalist BBC Saturday Show Britney’s Karaoke Criminals. @ 11yrs. 2001 • Runner up in GMTV Totstars @ 11yrs. 2001 • First recipient of the Emma Priest Scholarship for Singing to the Sylvia Young Theatre School (alumni – Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis) @ 11yrs. 2001 • Appeared on ITV Stars in their Eyes Kids as Karen Carpenter @ 12yrs. 2002 • Appeared in 3 Harry Potter films - “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” / “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” / “Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix” @ 13-15 yrs. 2003-2005 • Songwriting and recording with international hit songwriter, Chris Eaton (Cliff Richard, Janet Jackson, Jessica Simpson) @ 2007/8 • Lead role in “Musik”, independent film directed by Dan Evans. 2009. • Co-writer and singer of the song used in the Daily Mail Ireland TV campaign. 2009 "Most of all I love to sing. I love it. And after all the things people do and all the things people say to me, nothing will ever stop me. A part from my family it is my number one and everything would come below it. I just cannot stop... and no, I don’t need help." I Like being me.. x Love Taisa....x x