JulesSanchez

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First and Foremost PLEASE visit my music page www.myspace.com/julessanchezmusicpg add me to your friends list....Thanks....Okay here goes, Im a legend IN progress!!! ....OK so the progression is taking a little longer than I had anticipated...but hey ya gotta follow your heart right? Born in the Golden States Capitol City Sacramento on Feb. 9th 1976, to Hippy Parents 26 year old Patricia Amos and 27 year old Artist/Musician Father Cipriano Sanchez, sister Euphemia was born 12 months 12 days and 12 hours before me. She was a quiet baby unlike me...lol I came out screaming and havent shut up since.

From the start I had to face adversity, I was born premature, with severe ear infections, causing nerve damage and resulting in hearing loss. My parents split before I could remember and my father moved to the Central California Coast. At age 5 my mom, sister and I were involved in a severe car accident. My mom and sister remained in the hospital and I went to stay with my dad, who until then I did not remember.

I have always loved performing, I remember going up to strangers doing cartwheels for quarters. In kindergarten I entered my first Talent show. My dad worked nights as a custodian so I did not have that parent to push me out there. I went to my kindergarten teacher asking her if I could be in the talent show. She told me "its only for 1st-6th graders" she then asked me "what would you do in the talent show?" and with a tooth missing grin from ear to ear I told her..."SING"....and then I busted out with the latest school yard song. Next thing I knew, it was time for the talent show. I made my way across the stage to the microphone, adjusted the height and performed "when suzy was a baby she used to go like this"......and for my big finish to the song I kneeled on one knee while pulling the mic down and belted out "peanutbutter jelly sock em in the belly". From then on I knew my purpose.....Performing!

My dad recieved full custody of me; and living with him was rough, we didnt know each other. The one thing we had in common was the love of music. My dad was a janitor so money was tight, and with my ear problems I was in and out of the hospital, surgery after surgery. The pressure for my dad was enormous. I joined school choirs, church choirs and theatre. We could not afford classes so I would go to the studio, sit and watch from the window and then go home a teach myself. The Public Library was also a great resource, I would check out "How to...." video's.....BETA might I add, again... we couldnt afford the new VHS. I even listened to music on 8 tracks...when tapes were all the rage...lol. When I was 15 my dad had a stroke and because he had custody of me I was placed in the states care until he recovered. A year later he passed away from complications of the stroke. Because the state had custody of me I was moved from group home to group home and made my way back up to Sacramento, where my mom recieved custody of me 3 monthes before my 18th birthday....three High Schools later..... My goal at the time was to graduate. And I did, MIRA LOMA HIGH SCHHOOL CLASS OF 1994. Ironically, the same Alma Mater as my mom, I even sang at my graduation "this is your chance to be a star, to show the world just who you are, nothing can stop you now".

After graduation I went to college and studied dance and commercial music. I began performing in Local Community Theatre productions,including 7 seasons with sacramento's Largest Theatre production David L. MacDonald's "Best of Broadway" www.Bestofbroadway.org with a cast of 200 the show's Alumni have gone on to have successful careers in Film,Television and on Broadway including 80's sweetheart Molly Ringwald............. I began singing jingles for local radio stations and TV commercials. I also co-created a boy band, U-N-I (Uniting New Ideas). We performed all over town, doing halftime shows for sporting events, local malls, talent shows. Two years later I left the group due to creative differences.

In 2001 I decided to make my dream a reality. It has been a rollercoaster thats for sure. I showed up in LA on a greyhound bus, from the Golden States Capitol City, SACRAMENTO with $300 in my pocket and a job lined up with Disney, so I thought.....the job fell through and my money ran out with the quickness. I knew not a soul, but faith was my best friend. I asked for guidance and found peace from the pain in a homless shelter called P.A.T.H. I was able to stay in the city of Angels and follow my dream.

I started working background in TV & Film. I worked on "Will & Grace", "Just Shoot me", "ER" and performed the National Anthem many times for the NBA Championship LA LAKERS ,I appeared on 7 episodes of MTV's "Say what?KARAOKE" and was a Storyteller on MTVs short lived gameshow "Who knows the band?"....All while living in a homeless shelter. I was able to save some DINERO and got an apartment.

I made the top 50 on the first season of American Idol but through the magic of editing, they attempted to humiliate me. I knew the game and ended up on the show. I was voted the .... #1 fight with the judges and made the Idol DVD special feature "When judges attack". They told me to lose 100lbs. Remember this was the 1st season....I would like to think that I helped to change the criteria of the show and opened the door for the future contestants...lol.

I was able to cultivate relationships in the industry, I even managed to, without American Idol producers knowledge, get cast as a featured character dancer in 2 American Idol Ford Focus music video's during Season 3....you should have seen their faces..it was priceless!! Its all about persistence.... ;} I have been close yet seem so far from achieving my goals. Since the show I have been blessed to have worked with Grammy Award winning producers, was a contestant and won on the Gameshow "Street Smarts" also a contestant on and won "Dance 360"...wohoooo :p I co-starred with Grammy Nominated Songwriter and Star of the Hit show "Amen", Clifton Davis and Gospel recording artist Shirley Murdock in the National Tour Dvd recording and soundtrack for the Gospel Musical "Tell Hell I aint commin".

I believe in our purpose and my purpose is to entertain, to make you laugh, to make you smile to make you think and to keep you inspired! PLANT YOUR SEEDS AND YOU WILL GAIN A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST Reality begins with a DREAM!!!

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