13 year old Kelsey began her performing career with professional musical theatre at the age of 7. She has since performed in numerous productions across the country. Her favorite role has been that of Annie, in productions of ANNIE at Sacramento Music Circus, Atlanta’s Theatre of the Stars, and Fort Worth’s Casa Manana at Bass Hall. At the age of 10 she toured the US and Canada in the lead role of CARE BEARS LIVE. She was also a cast member of AMERICAN GIRL REVUE in Los Angeles.
Kelsey is excited to have been cast in the new opera by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked composer), called "Seance on a Wet Afternoon." The world premier will be held in Santa Barbara this fall.
Kelsey is very honored to be a repeat National Anthem singer for Anaheim Angels Baseball.
At the recent nationwide search for a new member of the Clique Girlz group, of the several hundreds of girls who auditioned, Kelsey made it into the final 3.
Kelsey appears in her friend Meiko's music video, "Under My Bed", check it out.
Kelsey, along with her sister, Hayley, and their two friends, Molly and Lindsay Ryan, have formed a new girl group called, Ventura Girlz. They just finished recording demos with music producer, Alex Cantrall. Very exciting! www.myspace.com/venturagirlz and www.venturagirlz.com.
Kelsey is a songwriter as well, and has had the pleasure of co-writing songs with Deborah Gibson, and Jonathan George. "Pathway," "Girl Thing," and "Individual," was co-written with Deborah. "Living My Dream," was co-written with Jonathan. She also co-wrote a song with Bryan Austin that she hopes to record soon.
The newest song on Kelsey's playlist, "Lost", was written by Alex Cantrall.
Kelsey studies voice with Billy Purnell.
She is represented by AEF Talent, and managed by Linda Henrie, of Go Talent Management.
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"Samantha Who," starring Christina Applegate, featuring Kelsey Smith as Young Samantha.
Just stopping by to spread the word about an amazing show coming up!!!!
It will be something most people have never seen before, a complete laser show that is indescribable and completely surrounds you as you listen to some of today's hottest up & coming artists performing to an amazing show that you don't want to miss out on!
I will be performing a cover song that night to the lasers as well, so come out check out the show!
Just saying hi and thanks for the add... Stay tuned. New album and music coming out soon! Also "My Friends" members before the release will get some FREE pre-release mp3's of my songs!! - ttyl joe valenta http://joevalenta.com http://twitter.com/joevalenta