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 number 67), Australian ARIAnet and the UK Albums Chart. The 6 tracks were: "Christmas Wish," "Love Came Down," "O Holy Night," "What Child is This," "O Come All Ye Faithful," and "White Christmas."Ģ002–2004: International success with Stacie Orrico In 2001, 15-year-old Stacie released her only Christmas album, Christmas Wish. Genuine eventually sold 500,000 copies, giving the album Gold certification on word-of-mouth alone. The album had two #1 hits, as well as three more Top Ten singles. The album produced the hit single "Don't Look At Me" which topped Christian charts for ten consecutive weeks. It sold over 13,000 copies in the first week, the highest debut week sales ever for a female Christian artist. The first was Genuine (2000), which she recorded at age 14. In 2001, she toured withDestiny's Child on their Survivor US tour. A ForeFront Records executive was on hand and approached her for a record deal. Orrico inadvertently entered a high-stakes talent competition, and won.
Stacie got her start in 1998, at the age of 12, by attending a Christian music festival, Praise in the Rockies, held in her then-home state of Colorado. At the age of 6, Stacie wrote her first song entitled 'Always Answer'. She 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. Both parents loved to travel, requiring the family to move frequently. Orrico is the middle child of five children her siblings are Jesse, Rachel, Alicia, and Joshua. In Colorado, she took piano lessons from Cathy Paquette. Orrico was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Patti (née Schmautz) and Dean Orrico. The family later moved to Denver, Colorado. The second single, "So Simple", is the last single from her third album which never charted in the US. The first single "I'm Not Missing You" was released in August 2006. She lost her label ForeFront Records in 2005 after 7 years and decided to concentrate on her music career and began writing her third album, Beautiful Awakening (2006).
In the same year, she made her first television appearance as an actress in two episodes of American Dreams. Her self-titled album has achieved sales worldwide of over 3.5 million. Her second single "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" debuted at No. 52 on Billboard Hot 100, but achieved greater success worldwide. The first single "Stuck" reached number No. 59 on the Billboard 200, was certified gold with over 500,000 sales in the U.S. In 1998, she signed to ForeFront Records when she was 12 years old, and recorded her first album Genuine (2000), which sold 13,000 in the first week of release.Īfter her first album she signed to a new record label, Virgin Records, and started to record her self-titled album Stacie Orrico (2003). She returned to the scene in early 2007, however, with Beautiful Awakening, an album on which she co-wrote many of the songs.Stacie Joy Orrico (born March 3, 1986) is a Contemporary Christian and R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Still a teenager, Orrico decided that the constant pressure and fast pace of the music industry was too much for her, so she took a break from it all and moved back in with her family in Seattle, getting a job in a restaurant. It was her next album, a self-titled 2003 release, that brought Orrico to greater fame, earning her a Grammy nomination, a spot on TRL, and a world tour. tour (through which she met Mathew Knowles, who offered her a deal with Virgin Records in 2002). The next year the young singer issued a six-song EP, Christmas Wish, and soon after was supporting Destiny's Child on their U.S. Smith-produced ballad "Dear Friend" and the disc's first single, "Don't Look at Me," were written or co-written by Orrico. Three songs from her debut album, including the Michael W. Her 2000 debut album, Genuine, is a combination of Christian pop with an urban flare and has been compared stylistically to both Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill. She built her career from that experience and was signed to Forefront Records. She first gained recognition in 1998 at the age of 12 when she received the top honor in the vocalist category at the Estes Park Christian Artist Seminar. Orrico began singing at an early age when her family moved to Denver, CO. CCM artist Stacie Orrico was born March 3, 1986, in Seattle, WA, and is one of five children of Christian missionaries.