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Maile Kai Merrick
"I love this voice, I love this heart."
-Kristin Chenoweth
"She's a natural, organic talent."
-Ben Margulies
Songwriter and Record Producer
"Thank you for such a mature performance, you get it."
-William F. Lett
Teaching Artist at Disney Imagination Campus and
Former Lecturer in MT and Dance, Cal State Fullerton
"You took us on a beautiful journey. I felt like we were tumbling through space with you, just tumbling beautifully. You had such a beautiful mixture of power and vulnerability, it just pulls us in. You were just radiating."
-Erik Stein
PCPA Theatre
Casting Director
“Maile Kai Merrick played Natasha with a perfect naive innocence and expressed her earnest need for love and attention with a stellar emotional performance. She was light and airy but also a perfectly pristine young girl facing real heartbreak for the first time."
-Richelle Boyd, The Santa Barbara Independent
"All the years that you had in musical theatre have really shown up in pop music. Your breathing technique, your vibrato, your presence on stage is just awesome."
- Leslie Lembo
Raw Silk
"There's not much to say, you're a super accomplished singer. You're vocalizing is ridiculous. You have a friggin' amazing talent."
-Kevin Bailey
Broadway Producer and Performer
"The vocal was flawless, but I think why I cried was the soulfulness. There's something that was so commanding first of all, and confident, and soulful, and natural."
-Terron Brooks
Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist, Broadway Actor, Vocal Coach and Producer
"One of my favorite teen singers in Santa Barbara."
-Kenny Loggins
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