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Artist
Julia Price
12+ albums
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Most parents remember their child’s first words. But with Julia, her parents remember the first song she sang. With only a few words under her belt, Julia listened to “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor. It was only her first time hearing the song but by the time the final chorus played, Julia sat up in her car seat and sang along, the melody ingrained in her mind, the words memorized like a true pro. She wasn’t even two years old. The Upstate New York native was always thinking like a musician, putting on shows at department stores for strangers, writing lyrics on the sidewalk with chalk, and gathering the neighborhood kids together to perform self-written musicals for an audience of parents, neighbors, and the mailman. When her mother’s friend inherited a piano, she passed it along to Julia thinking the two might connect. It was love. Real love. Julia stared at the black and white keys for hours before she sat down and taught herself how to play. But Julia was also an internationally competitive gymnast, so as her training schedule became more and more demanding, songwriting took a backseat to her rigorous lifestyle. Julia made the transition from gymnastics to springboard diving by her junior year of high school. Several years later, she took her athletic career to the next level when she joined the University of Miami’s Division I diving team, where her teammates were either prior Olympians or were training to compete in the upcoming Trials. Unfortunately a re-occurring bac
