Stacie Joy Orrico
(born March 3, 1986) is a Grammy-nominated and Dove
Award-winning pop singer, songwriter, and occasional
actress.
Early life: Stacie Orrico was born in Seattle,
Washington to Italian-American parents. Orrico is one of
five children: her siblings are Jesse, Rachel, Alicia
and Joshua.
Music career: Orrico got her start in 1998 at the
age of 12 by attending a Christian music festival Praise
in the Rockies, held in her then-home state of Colorado.
Orrico inadvertently entered a high-stakes talent
competition, and won. A ForeFront Records executive was
on hand and approached her for a record deal (she
eventually did sign with them).
Since then, she has released two albums. The first was
Genuine (see 2000 in music), created at the young age of
fourteen. It sold over 13,000 copies in the first week,
the highest debut week sales ever for a female Christian
artist. The album produced the hit single "Don't
Look At Me" which topped Christian charts for ten
consecutive weeks. The album had two #1 hits as well as
three more Top Ten singles. Genuine eventually sold
500,000 copies, giving the album Gold certification on
just word-of-mouth alone.
Her next effort, the more mainstream and self-titled
Stacie Orrico, was released in 2003 (see 2003 in music)
and charted in the U.S. Billboard Top 200 (debuting at
#67), Australian ARIAnet and the United Kingdom albums
charts. The first maintream single from this album was
"Stuck", which became a worldwide hit making
it into the Top 5 or Top 10 of the majority of the
world's charts. This was followed by the single
"(There's Gotta Be) More To Life", which also
charted and went top 20 in Australia and the UK.
"More To Life" failed to do as well as
"Stuck" but still became a hit in many
countries.
This was then followed by "I Promise" (top 30
in the UK), and the final mainstream single "I
Could Be The One" (top 40 in the UK on June 2004).
Both singles were given limited releases and limited
promotion, and predictably they did not fare as well as
the first two singles. The last three singles were only
released to Christian radio in addition to "Strong
Enough", which reached #1 as the CD's very first
single. Stacie Orrico sold over 500,000 copies in the
U.S., also good for Gold certification. The album also
sold 600,000 in Japan and an estimated 3.4 million
copies worldwide.
Her new album Beautiful Awakening was set to be released
worldwide on August 29, 2006, but because of concerns of
competition with new albums from Jessica Simpson, Beyoncé,
Justin Timberlake, and other chart toppers, it was
delayed in the U.S. until March 2007. Though a few songs
from the new album leaked onto the internet, Beautiful
Awakening was still released in Japan, the UK, and other
countries. The album features production from Dallas
Austin, Dwayne Bastiany, KayGee and The Underdogs and
writing duties are performed by notable songwriters like
She'kspere, Track & Field, Anthony Dent, newcomer
Novel and Orrico herself.
The first single "I'm Not Missing You" went
for radio adds on June 20, 2006, but due to little
promotion was re-released in October. The song peaked at
#19 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The
second single from the album, "So Simple," was
released in Asia in October 2006 and was released in
Europe on January 27, 2007.
Her music is looked at as an influential part of the now
highly profitable Contemporary Christian Music industry,
along with bands such as P.O.D.
At the beginning of 2007, American and Canadian fans
eagerly anticipated the belated release of Orrico's
third studio album "Beautiful Awakening"...
which was then later postponed again with a problem at
Virgin Records. In March 2007, Orrico announced to fans
that Virgin Records was merging with Capitol Records and
she had left them and would not be releasing the album
with that label.
Personal life: After the release of Stacie Orrico
and the singles from that album, Orrico decided she did
not want to pursue her career in music any further. She
and her friends went to stay in Malibu in California,
where Orrico started work in a small cafe. Throughout
her break, however, Orrico continued writing music which
then, eventually, led her back to her career. She
started recording again and developed a new album
Beautiful Awakening.
In February 2007, Orrico left Virgin Records due to the
label merging with Capitol Records and her album never
being released in the US. This gave her a lot of free
time in which she has now started raising money to
travel to South Africa, as a volunteer with
Cross-Cultural Solutions, to help children with AIDS.
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