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Lily Cave, 9, belts out a tune in Pioneer Park. The budding star sang both the Canadian and American national anthems at a Vancouver Canucks game in November and hopes to sing at more games next year.
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ily Cave is an aspiring performer, waiting for her big break. And at age nine, she is not wasting any time. Apart from school and friends, she spends as much time as she can going from one audition to another and improves herself by attending acting, dancing and singing classes – and she’s enjoying all the breaks that come her way. Recently the Grade 4 student competed at Vancouver’s annual Christmas Market X-mas Factor singing contest. She didn’t win the $5,000 grand prize, which went to a 21-year-old, but she was happy with the results. “It felt really great when I was asked to go to the finals,” says Cave, who sang Billy Squire’s Christmas is the Day to Say I Love You and Chuck Berry’s Run, Run Rudolph. “I am the youngest performer they’ve ever had at X-mas Factor.” In August, Cave competed in Rock the Rog, an online audition to sing the national anthem at a Vancouver Canucks game in Rogers Arena. “I made it to the finals and I didn’t win, however I was called to perform during family night,” says Cave. “They said I did the best of everybody who performed the (U.S. national) anthem.” She sang both the Canadian and U.S. national anthems at the Nov. 17 game, in front of more than 18,000 people. Standing in front of the largest crowd she has performed for, she says she wasn’t
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