She has been performing in front of live audiences since age 3. With
her parents and two sisters, she was a member of Pazport, the family's
pop/R&B/Latin pop musical group based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
[on concealing her identity when in public before "Popstars" revealed
the identities of the girls on TV] "We had to be all covered up with
glasses and bandannas and hats. For our first big press conference, we
wore these huge sweatshirts from K-Mart. It was pretty funny." (from WB
2001 interview)