Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10, 2004) is an American teen
singer and actress born in Michigan, and raised in Ashburn, Virginia.
In 2008, at the age of 4, she appeared on the third season of
America's Got Talent and for her audition sang "Somewhere Out There".
She reached the top 10 of AGT season 3, and was the youngest person to
ever reach that level. Maher has since appeared live at The Great Kids
Expo in Chantilly, Virginia, on October 25, 2008, a live broadcast of
the 2008 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, on December 4, 2008,
attended by President George W. Bush and over 7,000 guests, and the
2009 Cherry Blossom Festival on April 11, 2009. On October 3, 2009,
Maher was the opening act of The Addi and Cassi Hempel Fund benefit.
Maher has appeared in a Harris Teeter commercial airing during
December 2008. She was also selected by Compassion International as
its first ever Child Ambassador, visited children in El Salvador with
Compassion, got to meet her sponsored child, and shot a music video to
her title song "You Were Meant to Be."Maher signed a recording deal
late in 2009 with Indie Extreme for the release of her debut album You
Were Meant To Be. The album was released December 15, 2009. Kaitlyn
appeared in the Disney direct to video movie Santa Buddies as the
voice for the character, Tiny, which was released on November 24,
2009. Maher played the orphan Quinn in The Search for Santa Paws
released as a direct to video on November 23, 2010 which had its
television premiere on the Disney Channel in December 2011. She played
Sarah Reynolds in the sequel titled Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
released on November 20, 2012.Maher began her career on the third
season of the American television reality show America's Got Talent,
when she reached the top ten. Producers from the show first became
aware of Maher from a video that was uploaded to the popular video
sharing website YouTube. The video had been made after she had been
asked to sing at a birthday party for one of her relations in Canada.
The video was posted because Alison Maher was pregnant with her second
child and they could not travel to Canada. Five months after the video
had been made, around Maher's fourth birthday; Maher's parents
received an e-mail from NBC's America's Got Talent asking if Maher
would be able to audition for the show's third season.
singer and actress born in Michigan, and raised in Ashburn, Virginia.
In 2008, at the age of 4, she appeared on the third season of
America's Got Talent and for her audition sang "Somewhere Out There".
She reached the top 10 of AGT season 3, and was the youngest person to
ever reach that level. Maher has since appeared live at The Great Kids
Expo in Chantilly, Virginia, on October 25, 2008, a live broadcast of
the 2008 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, on December 4, 2008,
attended by President George W. Bush and over 7,000 guests, and the
2009 Cherry Blossom Festival on April 11, 2009. On October 3, 2009,
Maher was the opening act of The Addi and Cassi Hempel Fund benefit.
Maher has appeared in a Harris Teeter commercial airing during
December 2008. She was also selected by Compassion International as
its first ever Child Ambassador, visited children in El Salvador with
Compassion, got to meet her sponsored child, and shot a music video to
her title song "You Were Meant to Be."Maher signed a recording deal
late in 2009 with Indie Extreme for the release of her debut album You
Were Meant To Be. The album was released December 15, 2009. Kaitlyn
appeared in the Disney direct to video movie Santa Buddies as the
voice for the character, Tiny, which was released on November 24,
2009. Maher played the orphan Quinn in The Search for Santa Paws
released as a direct to video on November 23, 2010 which had its
television premiere on the Disney Channel in December 2011. She played
Sarah Reynolds in the sequel titled Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
released on November 20, 2012.Maher began her career on the third
season of the American television reality show America's Got Talent,
when she reached the top ten. Producers from the show first became
aware of Maher from a video that was uploaded to the popular video
sharing website YouTube. The video had been made after she had been
asked to sing at a birthday party for one of her relations in Canada.
The video was posted because Alison Maher was pregnant with her second
child and they could not travel to Canada. Five months after the video
had been made, around Maher's fourth birthday; Maher's parents
received an e-mail from NBC's America's Got Talent asking if Maher
would be able to audition for the show's third season.
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