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Fourteen-year-old Caitlyn Taylor Love is an exceptionally talented singer/songwriter/actress and dancer from Harlingen Texas. With very few outlets locally for performing, Caitlyn’s entertainment aspirations had her competing at the age of 10 in the Miss Texas Pageant in the Talent Division. Not only did she win the Talent Division, she was also crowned Miss Texas Jr. Preteen 2004. She was then invited in July 2005 to compete at IMTA New York where she won Miss Jr. Actress of the Year along with several other acting and singing awards. She was immediately signed by Coast to Coast Talent Group, a leading talent agency in Los Angeles, Ca specializing in young teen acting talent. Shortly after, Caitlyn moved to Los Angeles and quickly landed a lead role on MTV's “Punk'd” where she punked Pop Superstar Rhianna. She was also chosen out of the thousands of contestants across America to compete in the new NBC show “America's Got Talent”, which aired in June 2006 where she soared to the semi finals. A recent graduate of The School of Pop in Los Angeles, Caitlyn is featured as one of The Hollywood Hooligans and her song "Perfectly Impossible" is featured on the latest Hooligans Rock CD on Skooter Records. Never one to rest, she is busy working on her Master Demo after recently signing to Genuine Music Group (www.genuinemusicgroup.com) whose producer and songwriter clients have collectively sold over 140 million records. Her style of Rock based Pop incorporates an edgy rebellious flair reminiscent of the days of eighties female icons Pat Benetar and Joan Jett. A naturally gifted performer, she exudes stage presence well beyond her years. Stay tuned as she prepares the finishing touches on her new songs which will be featured here on her My Space site!

Fourteen-year-old Charlie has been described as an amazing singer, songwriter, and dancer. Her influences include Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, and Alicia Keys who have inspired her pop, rock, and R&B roots. As a talented four octave singer, she has been compared to the beautiful voice of Mariah Carey. Singing has been her passion ever since she could first talk. At age eleven, she asked her parents if she could take professional singing lessons. She soon started with extensive vocal lessons from world renown Billy Purnell, whom she has been training with for over two years. After hearing her talent, Billy gave her the nickname “The Voice”. She has been a part of "Kids 4 Kids" program organized by Billy Purnell, where young artists sing and perform to raise money for children with special needs. At age twelve, Charlie began classes at the Hollywood Pop Academy studying under Grammy nominee Alex Cantrell. She currently attends School of Pop and studies under producer and songwriter Ron Harris, who produced the debut album for Christina Aguilera. After performing the national anthem for the Anaheim Angels in which she sang in front of an audience of 44,000, they then asked her to return this year for another performance. She has also performed the national anthem for the world team tennis as well as performing live at BB Kings at Universal City Walk. She then appeared on Haunt Idol for RAW Talent where she was a finalist. Currently, Charlie is learning piano to constantly improve herself as an artist. She has been busy working in the studio writing and recording her original songs with Alex Cantrell who wrote and produced the hit song, “Leave, Get Out” by singing sensation JoJo. She also continues to write and record songs with producer and songwriter Sevon Daze. Stay tuned for upcoming news.

Jessica Sanchez is a 13 yr old vocalist from Southern California. Jessica, comprised of an exotic Mexican and Filipino mix, started singing at the age of 2. Her influences include Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston just to name a few. On September 22, 2008, Jessica was given the honor of singing our National Anthem during ESPN's Monday Night Football when the San Diego Chargers hosted Bret Favre and the New York Jets. Here is what went down in front of nearly 70,000 football fans! Thanks to international pop star Brandy, Jessica earned a wild card spot during the first season of America's Got Talent where Brandy gushed, "You're going to be HUGE, I promise!" Later that year, Jessica gained additional nationwide exposure by being featured on Showtime at the Apollo, hosted at that time by none other than Ms. Whoopi Goldberg. Jessica leads a very normal teen life. She has chores, has friends, goes to school, and enjoys her weekends with her family and friends. Aside from loving music, Jessica enjoys dancing, swimming, playing sports and video games. She is actually a shy person in nature but is very comfortable on stage when singing either in private or in public.

Michael is a veteran music manager/executive producer based in Los Angeles. After several A&R jobs at Capitol Records, Nastymix Records and React London, Michael founded a company Genuine Representation/Genuine Music Group 14 years ago focusing on the management and career development of Music Producers and Songwriters. To date his 20 Producer/Songwriter clients have been featured on sales of over 140 Million lps. He has received over 50 Gold and Platinum awards for his clients work with Usher (including a Grammy nomination for the 9X Platinum album "Confessions"), David Archuleta, JoJo, Jordin Sparks, Cheetah Girls, Backstreet Boys, 50 Cent, Robin Thicke, G-Unit, Destiny's Child, Jay Z, 2 Pac, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, J-Lo, Brandy, Game, Ginuwine, Faith Hill, Leann Rimes, Nick Lachey and more...see his official website at www.genuinemusicgroup.com. In 2007 Michael formed an artist development division of Genuine which focuses on the development and production of teen artists. The first act signed under the division are twin 15 year old singer/songwriters Tori and Troi Irons known as "Axiz" www.myspace.com/toriandtroi who Michael signed to Jive Records. There are several teen acts in development including School Of Pop alum Caitlyn Taylor Love www.myspace.com/caitlyntaylorlove. The division is poised for growth and will be looking to expand it's roster under the umbrella of School Of Pop students.

Mike Krompass (Mike K.) is an Canadian born songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles and Nashville. Most recently, Krompass' has been in the studio Collaborating on David Archuleta's upcoming record . Krompass' music has been featured in television shows and major motion picture soundtracks & 13 different WB television shows syndicated worldwide. These shows include: Extra, Celebrity Justice, Elimidate, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Ellen, The Sharon Osbourne Show, Judge Mathis, Street Smarts, High School Reunion, Charmed, Slam Ball, Steve Harvey's Big Time, TBS Movie Extra, and many more.. Mike K. has been featured on many television shows such as: The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Oscar Awards, Top of the Pops, and many others. Krompass has worked with chart-topping artists David Archuleta , Nelly Furtado, Natasha Beddingfield, Aly and AJ, Edwin ,Chris Kirkpatrick, Hayden Panettiere. Mike Krompass has also worked as a session guitar player for years on many releases.

Billy Purnell is one of Southern California's leading vocal technique teachers, as well as an accomplished studio session and concert singer. He has taught coast to coast across the United States and internationally, and his home study voice program has sold in over 45 countries around the world. Billy's personal client list includes a wide variety of professional singers and performers, including major label and independent label recording artists, Broadway and local musical theater actors and actresses, television personalities, voice teachers and other professional voice users, but his focus is mainly on artist development in voice and performance skills. As a professional singer/guitarist from the late seventies to 1990, Billy fronted several Southern California country and top-40 bands, and was an active studio session singer with the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase. In 1986 he built the EP Productions/ Sound Planet recording facility in Huntington Beach, CA and from 1986 to 1993 co-produced hundreds of songs, radio jingles and finished album projects with LA producer/session player Bob Emmet. Billy's knowledge of vocal technique, as taught to him through extensive study with Andrew Boettner (Newport Beach) and world-renowned Seth Riggs (Los Angeles) among others, combined with his ability to produce and coach vocalists in the studio, led him easily into private teaching, and in the early '90s Seth Riggs (Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, Bette Midler) made him an associate teacher. He credits Mr. Riggs as being the catalyst to his teaching career, but Billy's focus has spread to developing the entire artist - staging, styling, and bringing out the singers' own individual voice; that which makes him/her unique and marketable. This philosophy, combined with a God-given gift of being able to "troubleshoot" the human voice, has made Billy's studio a success. In 1994 Billy began developing the "Ultimate Voice Training for Singers" home-study training program. In 1996 Billy started taking it "on the road" with seminars and workshops, mainly hosted by voice teachers, musical theater groups and churches. The workshops have been a tremendous success, but Billy's main focus is still private teaching at his home studio in Riverside, CA, where he sees 80-100 students on a rotating schedule.