Stacie Orrico

Stacie Joy Orrico (born March 3, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter.

After signing to ForeFront Records, Orrico recorded her first album, Genuine (2000), which sold 13,000 units in its first week of release.

The first was Genuine (2000), which she recorded at age 14.

It sold over 13,000 copies in the first week, the highest debut week sales ever for a female Christian artist.

The album produced the hit single "Don't Look At Me" which topped Christian charts for ten consecutive weeks.

The album had two No. 1 hits, as well as three more top ten singles.

Genuine eventually sold 500,000 copies, giving the album a Gold certification on word-of-mouth alone.

In 2001, she toured with Destiny's Child on their Survivor US tour.

She went on to release two albums.

In 2001, 15-year-old Orrico released her only Christmas album, Christmas Wish.

The six tracks on the EP were: "Christmas Wish", "Love Came Down", "O Holy Night", "What Child is This", "O Come All Ye Faithful", and "White Christmas".

After her first album, she signed to a new record label, Virgin Records, and started to record her self-titled album Stacie Orrico (2003), which was released by both ForeFront and Virgin.

The album, which debuted at No. 59 on the Billboard 200, was certified gold with over 500,000 sales in the US.

The first single "Stuck" reached No. 52 on Billboard Hot 100, but achieved greater success worldwide.

Her second single "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Her self-titled album has achieved sales worldwide of over 3.5 million.

In the same year, she made her first television appearance as an actress in two episodes of American Dreams.

Her next effort, the more mainstream and self-titled album Stacie Orrico, was released in 2003 and charted on the US Billboard 200 (debuting at No. 67), Australian ARIA Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart.

The first mainstream single from this album was "Stuck", which became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 5 on the majority of the world's charts.

This was followed by the single "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life", which peaked in the top 20 in Australia (No. 11) and the UK (No. 12), although, overall, "Stuck" charted better, the exception being in the US.

This was then followed by "I Promise", written by Diane Warren (top 30 in the UK), and the final mainstream single "I Could Be the One" (top 40 in the UK in June 2004).

Both singles were given limited releases and limited promotion, meaning they did not fare as well as the first two singles.

The last three singles were only released to Christian radio in addition to "Strong Enough", which reached No. 1 as the CD's very first single.

Stacie Orrico sold over 500,000 copies in the US, enough sales for a Gold certification.

The album also sold 600,000 in Japan and an estimated 3.4 million copies worldwide.

She was dropped by her label ForeFront Records in 2005 after seven years and decided to concentrate on her music career and began writing her third album, Beautiful Awakening (2006).

The first single "I'm Not Missing You" was released in August 2006.

The second single, "So Simple", is the last single from her third album, which never charted in the US.

Orrico was born in Seattle, Washington to Patti (née Schmautz) and Dean Orrico, who were missionaries.

She is of Italian descent, born to a close-knit Italian-American family.

The family later moved to Denver, Colorado, where Orrico took piano lessons from Cathy Paquette.

Orrico is the middle child of five: her siblings are Jesse, Rachel, Alicia, and Joshua.

Both parents loved to travel, requiring the family to move frequently.

Orrico grew up influenced by a wide range of musical styles and was a member in the church choir; she often accompanied on the piano as the family sang Christian hymns.

At age six, Orrico wrote her first song, entitled "Always Answer."

She also attended missionary school with singer Allen Stone.

Orrico got her start at the age of 13, by attending a Christian music festival, Praise in the Rockies, held in her then-home state of Colorado.

Orrico inadvertently entered a high-stakes talent competition, and won.

A ForeFront Records executive was on hand and approached her for a record deal.

She later signed with them.