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Katelyn Wall Wall at the All-Region concert in January 2010.

Background information Birth name	Katelyn Nicole Wall Born	March 13, 1996 (age 14) Texarkana, Arkansas, Texas, United States

Genres Pop rock

Occupations	Student, singer, songwriter

Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano drums ukulele

Years active	2001–present

Katelyn Nicole “Katie” Wall [1] (born March 13, 1996) is an American student and singer-songwriter. She is best known for singing in her school’s choir and with friends. She goes to Ereckson Middle school and she is in the 8th grade. She is a very easy going person with nothing but love to share. She is mostly surrounded by family and friends that love her dearly which is what keeps her going, even when times get rough.

Contents
[hide] •	1 Early life •	2 Career •	       Music, Acting, Dancing & School •	3 Personal life

Early life
Wall was born in Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas[1] to Timothy Wall and Caterina Kuan. She has an older sister, Bailey, and a younger half brother, James.[1] Her mother is a supervisor for Subway and Mooyah ; her father moved to South America after he remarried in 2001. Wall is of Latino, Italian, Pilipino, Hawaiian, German, English, and Irish ancestry.[1]

Career
Wall began her singing career at the age of three from watching children's movies such as The Little Mermaid. She started cheerleading at the age of 5, and has done McKinney community theatre for 7 years in a row. She is part of a dance team, and also writes her own songs and plays the guitar, piano, drums, and ukulele. Her song’s inspiration comes from her experiences and present situations. She performs in many different venues. Such as restaurants, churches, family gatherings, weddings, and many more. While performing she always plays one of her instruments. At school she was in Chorale, Chamber (Varsity Girls), Ovation (Show Choir), and All-Region. At All-Region she tried out as a Soprano 2 and was sick the day of try outs. She still made top girl’s choir placing 10th chair. In community theatre, her performances include: The Little Mermaid (Ariel), Aladdin (Iago), Annie (Homeless child), Peter Pan (Wendy), 101 Dalmations (Cruella De Vil), and many more.

Wall sang a cover of "You Give Love a Bad Name" from Jon Bon Jovi. The song was performed at Six Flags on June 14, 2009.[2]

Personal life
She wrote the song "Lies in a Bound of Trust" about her estranged father. Wall stated that she likes various types of music. She loves acting, dancing, cheerleading, and most of all singing. Whenever she is upset the only way she feels to vent her feeling is to write songs about the experience and to perform them. Wall has a lot of friends whom she has known for some, very long and others not very long. She loves meeting new people and enjoys talking. Wall is also a part Jewish and Christian. She briefly told her mom she hated school in an effort for her mom to home-school her after and allegedly been bullied in the 3rd grade.