Just when things were seeing some clarity, Lisa Edward manages to shake things up once again! To vote for Lisa, please text OPEN 61 to 86222.Woah. “I hope everyone supports her by voting.” Lisa mother, Kathleen, added: “We are all absolutely delighted Lisa has got this far, and it is an achievement in itself. “If my singing career doesn’t take off, then I can use my degree to maybe go into teaching.” “Everyone needs a nine-to-five job to keep going. “That’s why I’m doing my course, because I think it is important to have a back-up plan. “A lot of people say they want to be a singer, but it is not as easy as all that. “I love musical theatre,” she explained, “but I definitely prefer the pop side of things. The student is now on her way to earning a degree in musical theatre.
“I wouldn’t say I hated school, but I wasn’t a fan of going to maths classes and would prefer to be performing on stage.” “At school, I was always looking through newspaper and the internet trying to see if there were any auditions I could take part in.
“Ever since I was a wee girl, I just wanted to sing all the time,” said Lisa. She explained this week that she has been interested in singing ever since she was a child, and even appeared in the Advertiser after winning a child singing contest in 1995, aged only four years old. “There were people in Bellshill stopping me in the street and telling me they had voted for me to go through, so I’m very happy.”Īround 8000 hopefuls entered the Open Mic contest nationwide, but Lisa’s raw talent saw her through to the competition final stage. “It was a public vote, and I had asked a lot of people I knew to text in for me. “I was totally shocked and overwhelmed when I learned I had got this far. But I have decided to have a bit more fun with it, choosing to do some R‘n’B songs instead. “In the first two rounds, I sang ballads. It has been murder this week, because I’m preparing for a big show at university as well, so my head is bursting with all the things I have to learn. She said: “I am really excited about the show. The musical theatre student, who studies at the University of the West of Scotland, will fly to London on Friday, in the hope of bagging the star prize, a recording contract. She was eventually given a wild card entry into the final 25 of the aged 18 to 25 category of the contest after a public text vote. Lisa, a former pupil at Bellshill Academy, has already succeeded in two earlier rounds of the talent competition, singing first in the regional finals in Glasgow and then the area final in Manchester at the end of last year. On her 20th birthday this Saturday, the Bellshill lass will perform at the Open Mic UK grand final in London’s O2 Arena. THE best birthday present for local songbird Lisa McKechnie would be to hit the big time after reaching the grand final of a national singing contest.
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