After that, it’s just been a really fun experience being onstage, performing for all of our fans that support us, to meet them after the show,” she said. “When I first found out I was going to be a Kidz Bop kid, I couldn’t do anything. She was chosen as one of 12 finalists following auditions and was flown to Dallas for a final audition during June and July 2013. “The kids get older and taller and they start driving,” Andrews said, “so it’s time for us after three years to let them move on to whatever next big thing they have lined up.”īredia is one of five of the third official group of Kidz Bop kids. It’s not just singing and dancing, but stage presence and personality, because these kids represent everyday kids that want to be pop stars,” she said.Īndrews said the Kidz Bop cast “graduates,” and a new cast is courted about every three years. “You know, it’s looking for everyday kids that have talent and really looking for the package. What Kidz Bop executives were looking for, Andrews said, was not children who were too “Broadway” or “staged,” but “real kids with real talent.”
So the process was a mix of video auditions and some in person in key cities,” she said. We had two days of auditions in Louisiana, in Atlanta and New York. “Casting agents in (Los Angeles) filtered through all the videos. When her agent heard about the opportunity to audition for Kidz Bop, Bredia said she wanted to give it a shot.Īmanda Andrews, Kidz Bop’s manager, said nearly 10,000 video-recorded auditions were received. We were supposed to be like sisters having a Christmas party with our look-alike dolls.”
“I think it was me holding a doll and another girl younger than me. “I was on the (American Girl) cover, actually,” Bredia said. With the support of her mother, she landed some modeling jobs, including work for Wal-Mart and American Girl. At age 6 or 7, she began to dance competitively. The Kidz Bop Dream Big, Sing Loud! tour will stop Saturday evening at the Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown.īredia said that ever since she was “really little,” she wanted to perform onstage. Little did she know that one day she would be recording albums and music videos and touring nationally with the brand. But when she saw the commercials, she said, it occurred to her that the kids featured were “pretty talented.” The albums feature songs with lyrical edits to make them more appropriate for younger audiences.Īs she got older, Bredia said, she began to listen to her Kidz Bop CD less frequently. The Kidz Bop brand of compilation albums featuring kids performing current pop hits has been around since 2000. She listened to the album with her brother and sister, she said during a telephone interview, and from time to time, she saw commercials for Kidz Bop. “I do have to mention, though, that the very first CD my mom ever bought me was the Kidz Bop Halloween album, so I listened to that a lot, too.” “I mean, I guess I just listened to whatever was on the radio,” Bredia said. In the car, she listened to top-40 music on KISS-FM. The 11-year-old used to hear the Latin-American music her mother listened to as she cleaned her family’s house in Chicago.
Bredia Santuro’s musical background is not all that remarkable, she said.
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