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Vancouver’s most influential country music
radio station, and gave it to the receptionist.
Through persistence Newton managed to
. geta call back, “Get this kid down here,” they
said. “Now.”
, And so, in April 1998 Bobbi Smith
“appeared on the JR morning show with
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plug,” said Stanners in an interview.

“Almost immediately the phones started
ringing. ‘Who is that girl? Where do we get
her tape? How do we find out more about
her?” The power of a couple of seconds and a
really good voice was amazing.”

When her song was released on April 16,
1998, it became the most requested song on
JR-FM.

Since that day Smith's career has continued
to blossom culminating i into a number of sig-
nificant performances, including fast suramer's

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Mernt Mountain Music Festival.

According to all accounts, Bobbi made a
huge splash captivating her audience from the
moment she took to the stage and began to

: “My name is Bobbi /I’'m beltin’ it out,
tike a song that keeps your feet moving/Th he
kinda song where the beat _ keeps groovin.’

Ir was 30+ degrees, and Bobbi Smith cut
through the summer haze with an clectrifying
performance that made jaws drop as an audi-
ence of some 70,000 concert-goers exchanged
glances with a collective “Who is this?”

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Smith’s Dec, 2 concert at Centennial
Theatre is her third annual performance in
benefit of Tisumy's Telethon, an cftort which
has so far raised more than $10,000 for the
charity. This year in conjunction with the
‘Telethon, The Lions Society tor Crippled
Children has also j just released a country
music CD titled, The Greatest Gift teaturing
Smith’s latest single “My Own Little Angel.”

Catch Smith’s rising star at her Dee. 2
concert.

ft might just prove to be one of those
evenings you can look back upon and proudly.
reminisce, “f remember when I saw Bobbi
Smith play there. It was only $11 and she was
just a kid. Bur what a talent!”