“But I recently lost 140 pounds and I decided to audition for ‘America’s Got Talent’ because I’m not getting any younger and I wanted to set a good example for my kids – Brenden, age five and Ava, age 17 months - and to teach them that no matter what the outcome may be, you have to try. We just went to karaoke bars where I kicked butt for years,” Anna said with a sense of pride.Īlthough she honed her voice with karaoke, according to the 35-year-old singer, one reason for not pursuing a musical career was because of weight gain. “I didn’t pursue singing at all for the next 15 years. One of those beauty competitions was the Little Miss Texas pageant where she won the “Grand Talent” portion of the contest with her vocal rendition of Celine Dion’s “Power of Love.” To top it off, Anna was also the runner-up in this contest.Īnna was still wearing her tiara when she met Miguel, the son of Kathy and Pete Sánchez, CEO and president of “Little Joe’s Salsa.” After that, the only time she sang was during a Sánchez Family reunion in Navasota, Texas two years after she met Miguel. In the summer of 1995, she moved to Dallas where Carol Brown, her maternal grandmother began to enter the blonde cutie into beauty pageants. Her Christian upbringing meant that her sole repertoire consisted of gospel and songs of praise and worship. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania before a congregation of approximately one hundred. She was ten or eleven when the church elders heard her sing from a pew where she stood next to her paternal grandparents and they suggested that they should put her in the church choir.īessie and David Kiser took their advice, encouraged Anna and at age thirteen, she made her sining debut at a Father/Son Banquet at St.
The truth is that making it this far was a long way for Anna, who originally hails from York, Pennsylvania where, as she says, “I grew up on a farm where I would sing to the cows and to my friends at school.” While many aspiring contestants made the trek from New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, while driving down from Corinth, Texas seemed to be a much shorter drive for Anna, her husband Miguel Sánchez and their friends, Jennifer and Mike Parker. “America’s Got Talent” producers descended on the Alamo City to hold auditions for their upcoming season and Anna Sánchez was among those who stood out in a sea of thousands trying out.
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