Michelle Lea Biography

Michelle Lea started singing professionally at the age of 10. She opened her bedroom window and sang to the animals in the woods behind her house. She said it was "because the Animals were her audience". Michelle has been wowing audiences ever since.

Michelle Lea auditioned for Nashville in January of 2008 at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City. Out of nearly 600 who auditioned that day she was one of 40 who made it to the second round. From there she was selected as a Regional Finalist. To get to this spot she had gotten past 24,000 contestants. Michelle then went to Nashville to compete against 50 or so Regional Finalists who got to audition in front of a line of about 6,000 Open Call contestants.

Michelle Lea was moved by the Tsunami which hit South-East Asia in December of 2004. She went to her parents to see if she could do a benefit variety show to raise money to help people affected by the tsunami. Once she was made aware of the commitment needed to put on such a show she was all for getting the job done. She first contacted many friends to volunteer. She then contacted Johnny Rowlands with KMBC TV 9 to ask him to MC the event and he agreed. She then contacted Senator Victor Callahan to bring everyone together to produce a commercial to air on Comcast Cable. to have a commercial produced to help spread the word about this event and entertainment expected. Middle Creek Opry Band was the House Band for this event. Special guests included Blue 88, Phaze II, Terry Meggleson - Magician and comic Aaron Gnirk. T-shirts were made, concessions and even raffles were a part of this event. Although Comcast gave this event a good run on cable and the local paper "The Examiner" wrote numerous stories about this event, less than 200 people came to the event. However, she still raised over 1,300 dollars for tsunami relief. The funny part of this story is that less than six months later Michelle was a guest singer for a Hurricane relief benefit and she raised $1,500 for just singing three songs.