Maddie Georgi
Allison Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Music
Press
"Maddie Georgi, 16, finished second, but she's still a winner: The Hampton High teen survived numerous cuts from the original 60,000 entries in the Country Music Television's Music City Madness online national contest to find the best unsigned country act.
Maddie's video of her singing her original song, "Gone Away Again," was seen by tens of thousands of people during elimination rounds before she fell to Kurt Thomas of Georgia in the finale. Another of Georgi's songs, "Take My Hand," inspired by her autistic brother, Jake, was a winner in the local Kean Idol contest and has been used to raise money for the Autism Center of Pittsburgh.
The young singer has been an opening act for artists such as Enuff's Enuff, Billy Price, Van Hunt, Brooke Waggoner and Bill Deasy, and has performed at events and venues small and large all over the region, including Club Cafe, the Hard Rock Cafe, Heinz Field, Syria Shrine Center and PNC Park.
You may have heard Maddie's rendition of the national anthem before a Pirates' game at PNC Park and other sporting events around town or seen her as a host of the Steelers' "Kidzone" show on WPCW. She's now hosting a monthly under-21 open stage at Borders in the Shoppes at Northway in Ross, 7 to 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month."
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Discography
Debut EP released in the spring of 09. Available on I-tunes, CD Baby and other digital outlets.
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Bio
Sixteen year old Maddie Georgi from Allison Park, PA just may be the next big thing to come out of Pittsburgh's music scene since another Western PA teen, Christina Aguilera. With her extraordinary vocal ability and gifted songwriting, Maddie has created quite a sensation since she began performing as a singer-songwriter. She has opened for grammy winner Van Hunt, local Pittsburgh fave Bill Deasy and blues legend Billy Price and has performed at high profile venues such as Club Cafe, the Syria Shrine Pavilion and the Hard Rock Cafe. She has sung the national anthem at a Pirate Game and is slated to sing it at a Steeler game next fall. She was first runner-up in the national Country Music Television Music City Madness contest for which she received a lot of local and national attention. The music video for her original song, "Gone Away Again", was selected out of more than 60,000 entries. Despite all of this excitement, Maddie is most known for her charitable work, especially on behalf of Autism awareness. At age 14, she wrote "Take My Hand" ,a song dedicated to her younger brother, Jake, who has autism. Maddie donated the song to the Autism Center of Pittsburgh.
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