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Ashley Monique Ballard (born June 9, 1985 in Mission Viejo, California) is an United States|American pop singer.

Biography
Early Start

Ashley Ballard sang from the time she was three, creating her own arrangements of favorite nursery rhymes while imitating songs she'd hear on the radio. In 1990, a five-year-old Ballard performed onstage for the first time with her pianist uncle as part of a Christmas concert in Orange County, California|Orange County. Her first demos were recorded when she was six.

In 1992, she was a four-time Junior Finalist on StarSearch. Ballard also performed for a number of local events, ranging from church, school, and community theater events to private parties and regional cable television programs. Another milestone came in 1996 when Ballard was asked to perform for President Bill Clinton during a political event in Century City. Thereafter, she was invited to sing in Washington D.C. on the occasion of Clinton's second inaugural.

Signing With Atlantic

In 1998, she sang at the Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony, performing alongside Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, Boz Scaggs, Stephen Stills, and Bobby 'Blue' Bland. She made her recorded debut a year later with the November 1999 release of Atlantic's RIAA double-platinum ''PokÃ©mon: The First Movie (soundtrack)|PokÃ©mon: The First Movie soundtrack'' ... read all