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DAKOTA DAWN WADE is an amazing 15-year-old award winning singer/songwriter, whose original song “Mistake Sampleman7 Remix” won First Place in the 2007 AMERICAN IDOL UNDERGROUND song contest (Electronica genre). She was the youngest winner in all the genres including Pop, Rock & Country and won $5,000 cash and other great prizes.

Dakota has already written 100+ songs.

Dakota has been in the studio working with top writer/producers Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Wilkins, who also produce Natasha Bedingfield (“Unwritten”, “These Words”) and many other top recording artists. Dakota is not only singing but also co-writing with Danielle and Wayne on every song.

Dakota was named in the May 2007 edition of AMERICAN IDOL magazine as one of the “BEST EMERGING ARTISTS OF 2006” for AMERICAN IDOL UNDERGROUND. Dakota has won numerous other songwriting awards including two “Suggested Artist” and two “Honorable Mentions” in the worldwide songwriting competition, “Song of the Year.”

Dakota performs in popular L.A. venues like the Rainbow Room and the Pig n Whistle, and she is also a member of top teen performing group, L.A. Hip Kids, where she both sings and dances.

When Dakota was only 5 years old, she wrote and performed her very first song “The Mother’s Day Song.” And it’s even on tape! That was just a foreshadowing of what was to come. Dakota wrote her next song when she was 9. By 10 she had written and recorded her third song which was used to raise money for a September 11 charity. That same year she was invited to perform her song for the Mayor of Albuquerque at the First Anniversary ceremonies of September 11.

At the age of 12 Dakota was voted “Student Most Likely To Become The Next American Idol” by her school classmates.
Dakota was also a top ice skater until she stopped skating competitively to pursue her music career. She is the youngest person, and only female, to ever figure skate to their own original song in a regional skating competition. She received a Bronze medal for that performance, qualifying her for Nationals (www.rebelchannel.com). Dakota hopes to one day skate to her own song in her own MTV video.

www.MySpace.com/DakotaDawnMusic