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Singer's star rises in local band after video hits YouTube


Lauren Smyk sang during the Lynchburg Star competition at Friday Cheers last Friday. She has advanced to the finals on Aug. 6.

By CASEY GILLIS
Published: July 20, 2010

Even Lauren Smyk can admit she wasn’t very comfortable on stage when she auditioned for the Lynch’s Landing Lynchburg Star competition last summer.

Sure, she’d sung at local karaoke nights for years and had performed in classical music concerts while a student at Liberty University, but she’d never had to work the stage before.

“It was my first time in front of a crowd singing contemporary songs,” says Smyk, a Pennsylvania native who graduated from Liberty with a music degree in 2006. “There were a lot of people there that day. I thought, ‘This is scary.’”

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I remember her well from choir classes together. Glad to hear she's doing well!