MAPLE GROVE TEEN RELEASES DEBUT CD February 8, 2012 — Jennifer Anderson reporting janderson@twelve.tv For 16-year-old Erin Jamieson, the whirlwind year she’s been riding began with a song. Last summer, Jamieson won two impressive honors for Christian artists. She had entered both the songwriting competition and talent competition at the Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival in North Carolina. She won both. “When they announced my name,” she said, “I just started bawling and I looked at my mom and she was crying and it was just crazy. I couldn’t believe it was happening.” The grand prize was a recording contract with Lamon Records in Nashville, Tennessee. Since then she has traveled between her home in Maple Grove and a music studio in Nashville to produce her first CD. It features four original songs, written and performed by Jamieson. The song that made it all happen, called Hope for the Broken, is on the CD. Jamieson wrote the piece during a trying time in her life. It was shortly after her dad was laid off from his job and her sister, who has special needs (Angelman Syndrome), was going through a challenging medical bout. Listening to professional musicians and producers record her song was thrilling. “They heard my song once and they just played it,” she said of the band that performs with her on the CD, “and I was just kind of in awe of who I was in the room with.” “It was just crazy to hear my songs go from my little piano room from Maple Grove, Minnesota …
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