 Hi, I'm Chanel Llorea Stasiuk. I'm 14 years old and a student in Surrey (That's in British Columbia, Canada if you're reading this from somewhere else around the world and don't know). I LOVE to sing! In fact, my parents say they really knew I could sing when at the age of two I sang along with Shania Twain’s “Man I Feel Like a Woman” …with feeling! From there I progressed to singing with Ariel, Belle and every other female "star" of Walt Disney videos (I even had the costumes)! My Mom has always said that my vocal chords are attached to my leg muscles, because everytime I move I sing!
This year is really exciting - music wise! My newest challenges are songwriting and learning guitar. So far I've got a ton of lyrics and I've been performing some of my own music and will be doing a lot more of it! You can see some of my own tunes on the video and music section sof the website! Take a listen and send me an email to let me know what you think! I'm hoping to get back in the studio soon with some of my original songs - cross your fingers for me! Also, this is my first year singing at Merritt Mountainfest which is really exciting!
My first memory of performing was when I was 5 and in kindergarten. We'd just started at a new  school and I sang for the music teacher. I guess she liked it, because a few weeks later I was singing my first solo of “Silent Night” at the school Christmas Concert. In January 2001, I began my formal training with the White Rock Children’s Choir (there I am to the right - aren't I cute!) and I sang with the choir under conductor Sarona Mynhardt for 7 years. The highlight was in May 2007 when we travelled to Disneyland and performed in the park.
In May 2005, I began private voice lessons with Althea Di Gregorio, and then my performance career really started taking off. Althea is a great coach and lots of fun. Check out my performance section for a list of all my recent and upcoming performances!
In 2006, I got to record my 1st CD, "Chanel Stasiuk 8 X 10".. I guess technically it was my second time in a recording studio because when I was 8, I sang back up on Max Tell's CD, "A Dragon with a Flagon" (see picture below!). If you couldn't guess from the title, he's a children's entertainer and he needed some kids to sing on a couple of the songs. Anyway, working in the studio on my own CD was a lot of hard work for a 10 year old, but tons of fun and I learned a lot!
 For the past 5 years I've performed in the Fraser Valley Kiwanis Music Festival and and I've won several voice scholarships. In 2007 I sang Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better from Annie Get Your Gun as a duet with Brett McCrady and we were selected to sing at the Kiwanis Honours performance. It truly was an honour and it was great to do a duet for a change.
Besides singing, which takes up a lot of my time I like to play lots of sports. But my favorite is basketball.
 Also, last year at school, I conducted the "Ray Shepherd Stars in Training", the primary grade choir at school with some help from some of my friends. We performed at the school Christmas concert and then at the year end Fine Arts Night the kids did some really fun African songs. It was a great experience to share my love of music with some younger kids. There's a picture of my choir to the right!
I live with my parents, my older (and now shorter) sister Alex (a super soccer player), my nanny Vi, my two dogs Elvis (a black lab) and Jazzy (a shepherd, retriever cross) and a couple of fish (One of them is named "Breakfast". We started with 3, but "Lunch" and "Dinner" died). Based on our dogs names, you can kind of tell that we're a musical family. My Mom used to do a lot of musical theatre and my Dad was in a rock band with his 4 brothers. So I guess music is in my genes!
I'm always looking for an opportunity to perform, so if you are planning any events and would like some entertainment, I'd love to hear from you! Also, I hope you take the time to visit my video and audio pages and listen to some of my songs. Drop me an email and tell me what you think!
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