{"id":10654,"date":"2019-03-01T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2019-03-01T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:24:35","slug":"alaylia-norton-shoots-for-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/alaylia-norton-shoots-for-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAYLIA NORTON SHOOTS FOR THE STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Multitalented SCHS student chooses singing as her potential career\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Emilee Mae Struss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alaylia Norton is raising money to work with the record label Kings of A&R and hopes to make singing her career. Photo credit: Deidhra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI absolutely love singing and acting,\u201d Norton said. \u201cThat is where I am headed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norton started singing in third grade. Her favorite genres of music are folk\/indie and pop. Norton also joined Colla Voce, an all-female jazz choir at Wood River High School, for two years prior to speaking with a record label interested in helping her develop her singing to a professional level. The record label is Kings of A&R.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think this is phenomenal,\u201d Norton said in reference to Kings of A&R.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norton has also been acting for several years. She joined St. Thomas Playhouse last summer. She said \u201cSister Act\u201d and \u201cSeussical The Musical\u201d were her favorite performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norton hasn\u2019t always attended Silver Creek High School; she made the switch just two years ago. She describes SCHS as the perfect alternative to accommodate her development in singing\/acting. She is now teaching a dance class at SCHS and enjoys sharing her passion for dance with others. Her schedule allows for flexibility when traveling to auditions, some of which are in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the record label,\u201d Norton said, \u201cI hope to have some big opportunities coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, Norton is working at Spirit N\u2019 Motion Athletic School in Hailey, teaching gymnastics, which is another talent of Norton\u2019s. She was in gymnastics for four years, cheerleading for 12 years and dance for 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love all the energy of competitions with stunting, jumping, tumbling and all of it together,\u201d Norton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WRHS Cheer Team is headed to the district level for a competition in the hopes of making it to the state championships in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next year, Norton is taking a \u201cgap year\u201d to focus on fundraising for the record label and performing. She is well aware that the common decision to pursue higher education will always be there for her. And if singing\/acting doesn\u2019t work out for Norton, she plans to pursue a degree in criminal psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the intensity of it,\u201d Norton said. \u201cAnd I just find it so interesting, like crime scene investigations and stuff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Norton isn\u2019t singing, dancing or acting, she is practicing the ukulele or the guitar. And although she says her brain is naturally more \u201cEnglish and history,\u201d she is also interested in science an maintains a 3.95 GPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Norton\u2019s many talents, she is not lacking in options, post-graduation, but says pursuing singing\/acting is option number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is for me,\u201d Norton said. \u201cThis is my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multitalented SCHS student chooses singing as her potential career\u00a0 By Emilee Mae Struss \u201cI absolutely love singing and acting,\u201d Norton said. \u201cThat is where I am headed.\u201d Norton started singing in third grade. Her favorite genres of music are folk\/indie and pop. Norton also joined Colla Voce, an all-female jazz choir at Wood River High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}