Meet Michelle Kammi..

Michelle was introduced to the studio at an early age. Her mother, Sajia, an Afghani recording artist and TV personality, would bring Michelle to the studio to listen in on the recordings. Michelle got her first TV appearance on “Afghanistan TV” reciting a poem when she was five years old. Along with those early forays into entertainment, her brother introduced her to Britney Spears and N*Sync, bringing the all stars of American pop music into her life. Despite influence from her family, they were one of the first critical audiences she had to impress, along with her classmates. Her family doubted her ability to conform to industry standards, to sing or to achieve a certain body type, but this doubt became a challenge to become the proverbial “whole package”. With time, however, she would show them that beyond conforming, she could one-up the industry’s star model, bringing her own flavor, beats, and background to her music. They gained faith in her abilities after seeing her perform in her brother’s showcase, where she sang Britney Spears’ “Not Yet a Girl, Not Yet a Woman”. In middle school when Michelle realized her goals of becoming a full-fledged popstar, she faced additional discouragement from her peers, who doubted her ability to succeed because of her ethnicity. Freshman year in high school, she found a stage to make her own. At her school talent show, she performed a medley of four Britney Spears songs, dancing and lip-syncing to them. The response was immediate and overwhelming: people were screaming and her brother was on his feet, signaling her family’s new found confidence in her and her ability to stir up the audience. Michelle developed her freestyle dance from watching, imitating, and channeling beats, making dance a part of her life since she was five years old. She’d also been writing lyrics since she was nine years old, as a way to spend time with her friends. After the talent show performance, she started taking lessons at Millennium Dance studio, as well as receiving vocal coaching throughout high school. After a yearlong hiatus from her craft junior year, she got back in the game senior year of high school. In November of 2006, she did an audition for Shahbal Shappara, creator and producer of the Iranian pop group, the Black Cats. His response and enthusiasm was a huge source of inspiration, and led to her first real concert performance. For a month following the meeting, she jumped into a party-free, gym-filled, healthy-eats lifestyle. She hit the stage for a Christmas performance at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, in front of 10,000 people, as backup dancer and co-choreographer. The rush of the performance was more than enough to push her dedication to the limit: She adopted the workouts, diet techniques, and practice schedules she used for the Vegas show into her daily life. Connecting with coach Rachel Lawrence in March 2007, who she had worked with once for her brother’s showcase, she found a true teacher in piano and vocal training. Producers and musicians came and went, but no one could deliver the message Michelle had in her head: so, as she moved into the dorms at USC in the fall of 2007, she started working on her own music, solo. With a midi player, keyboard, and a laptop, she put down her tracks and put together a demo. She spent hours in her dorm room studio, creating everything you hear in her songs. Michelle has big goals for her career and even bigger goals for her art. Michelle is a singer, dancer, songwriter, musician and she’s ready to showcase her talent to the whole world and make her dreams of becoming the next international female sensation in pop music come true.
CONTACT INFO:
Donnell Williams
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Margaret Guiraud
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Production credits:
Kim Carrera, producer.
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