04 Apr 2013
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CChristie George isn’t your average cocktail waitress. She doesn’t have a sugar daddy. She’s not saving her tips to buy a pair of Louboutins. She actually sees a life beyond serving tables at Wet Republic. “The girl that I represent is a girl that is going to go after her dreams. It’s not really relying on anybody else, you know? If you have it in your heart, go for it,” says the 5’9’’ blonde haired, green-eyed aspiring country-pop singer.
Growing up in Peachtree City, Georgia, the 26-year-old beauty says she never had a permanent roof over her head. “My mom was a single mom and we never really had our own place. We lived with my aunt and uncle, and throughout high school, we lived in a mother-in-law suite inside of a house,” George says. But no matter how unstable her home life may have seemed, the bubbly crooner always had a constant. “I sang in churches, tiny little sandwich shops and I sang at funerals,” she says. “When people say, ‘My daughter wants to be just like you’ or ‘Oh my God, you gave me goose bumps,’ you’re making a song come to life and there’s just nothing like it. It’s a high.”
At 17, George auditioned for American Idol. It was 2004, the same year soulsinger Fantasia won fans over. “This is before Carrie Underwood. I had not even graduated high school yet. They said I was still a baby and they wanted me to come back and audition the next year,” she says. “When I auditioned, they didn’t really like country. They really weren’t looking for that.” One year later, insert Underwood. “Then they were like, ‘We need someone country,’” she says. “It’s kind of crappy because now it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, but Carrie Underwood did it.’”
And the Nashville-bound George is going to do it too. “This music industry has changed from the way it was when I left Georgia,” she says. “It’s now become more of an independent music industry where you have to build your fan base (follow her on Twitter @christie_george) and do everything on your own as if you were signed by a label.” Her website ChristieGeorge.com serves as a platform for George to post recordings such as the catchy love tune “Flyin’ Blind” alongside video blogs and her resumé, which details acting roles in films such as Last Vegas and Rush Hour 3. “I’m still learning the tricks of the trade,” she says. “I need to get one song out there and a video. But before I release any songs, I wanna make sure it’s who I am, and then things can get promoted on the Internet.”
In the meantime, she isn’t doing too badly. Thanks to her involvement with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, she’s already earned a gold and a platinum album. “We did 70 shows in 64 days in 46 cities—you have two weeks of rehearsals to make sure all the music, singers and the band are in sync. It’s completely awesome.” With a ton of hard work, George also recently bought her very first home in Henderson, Nevada. She shares it with her mom; her Yorkie, Misty; her Himalayan cat, Cali; and two birds named Sugar and Pepper. “Pepper is just like her mama—a little spicy!”
So how does the sassy songstress stay motivated? “Hunger drives me. And that hunger is never going back to what my life was when I was growing up,” she says. “That hunger is overcoming challenges I face in this industry and in life in general. I’m competing against people who have a label helping them or people who have money coming from their dad. I have to fight every day. And that’s what my drive for success is—to say I did it on my own without sacrificing who I am as a person.”
Here is Christie George singing “Attitude” by Wynonna Judd
