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Even though she's only 18 years old, Indie Pop artist Audrianna Cole is one of those proverbial "Old Souls" you hear about. She's lived a lot of years for not even being 20 yet - she's faced life's trials and drama with courage and poise, and come out the other end with a worldview and a voice so rich and womanly, it'll touch your heart and send shivers across your skin at the same time. Audrianna was practically born singing, as the old cliché goes - her first musical inspirations were the typical childhood 'heroes' like Backstreet Boys and Britney, but as she grew older and her voice grew bigger, her musical tastes evolved to include rock and blues influences like Johnny Cash and Lightnin' Hopkins. Growing up in the picturesque and musically-rich Pacific Northwest, Audrianna sang in school choir and played Simba in the musical "The Lion King," and that was pretty much her life until fate stepped in and dramatically altered the course of her life. Audrianna accompanied her military father to his civilian part-time job on a Saturday four years ago, and as they were stopped in traffic, an 18-wheeled Semi slammed into them at freeway speeds. She had minor injuries; her father wasn't so fortunate. "My Dad was hurt and bleeding, and it was so traumatizing wondering if he was going to be all right," she says. Her father's injuries were so severe that he was discharged from the military and spent a long time recovering at home. Audrianna decided to leave public school to be