Kirstin Maldonado - Blues Singers, Family and Childhood
Kirstin Maldonado's Personal Details
Kirstin Maldonado is an American singer and songwriter
| Information | Detail |
|---|---|
| Birthday | May 16, 1992 |
| Nationality | American |
| Famous | Singers, Rhythm & Blues Singers, Pop Singers, Blues Singers, Rhythm |
| City/State | Texas |
| Partners |
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| Known as | Kirstin Taylor Maldonado |
| Birth Place | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Height | 163 |
| Gender | Female |
| Father | Michael Cisneros |
| Mother | Angelica Maldonado |
| Sun Sign | Taurus |
| Born in | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Famous as | Singer |
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Who is Kirstin Maldonado?
Kirstin Maldonado is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as a member of the Arlington, Texas based a cappella group ‘Pentatonix’, which won the third season of NBC's a cappella competition 'The Sing-Off'. She is one of the founding members of the band along with her high school friends Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi. The band also consists of Kevin Olusola and Matt Sallee, while Avi Kaplan was one of the original members of the group. They have released a total of six studio albums, five extended plays, eight singles and twenty six music videos, and have won three 'Grammy Awards', apart from numerous other awards and nominations. As a solo artist, Maldonado has released her first EP, 'L O V E', containing singles like 'Break a Little', 'All Night' and 'Naked'. She is also an actress and has appeared as Lauren in the Broadway production of the Tony-winning musical 'Kinky Boots' at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
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Childhood & Early Life
Kirstin Taylor "Kirstie" Maldonado was born on May 16, 1992 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, to Mexican father Michael Cisneros and Spanish-Italian mother Angelica Maldonado. She has been raised by her mother in Arlington, Texas.
She first showed interest in singing when she was only five years old, and convinced her mother to allow her to take voice lessons by singing at her wedding reception when she was eight. She was also involved in a number of local theatrical productions and toured with Theatre Arlington for eight years, during which she met Mitch Grassi.
She attended Holy Rosary Catholic School for a time before transferring to Martin High School, where she met Scott Hoying, another member of her future band. After completing her school graduation in 2010, she enrolled into a Musical Theatre Performance major course at the University of Oklahoma, but dropped out of college in her sophomore year to form ‘Pentatonix’.
Career with Pentatonix
Kirstin Maldonado, along with her Martin High School friends Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi, had formed an a cappella trio to enter a local radio show competition to meet the cast of 'Glee'. While their cover version of 'Telephone' by Lady Gaga failed to win the competition, it became very popular among their friends and subsequently earned a lot of attention on YouTube.
Scott Hoying contacted Maldonado in 2011 with the proposal to form a group to enter NBC's a cappella competition 'The Sing-Off'. The group, named 'Pentatonix' after the pentatonic scale, also included Mitch Grassi, as well as bass artist Avi Kaplan and beatboxer Kevin Olusola.
As one of the 16 competing teams, the group entered the third season of 'The Sing-Off', which went on air on September 19, 2011. After 11 episodes spanning over a month, the group was crowned the winner of the competition on November 28, 2011, earning $200,000 and a recording contract with Sony Music.
Maldonado and Hoying, who had dropped out of college, and Grassi, who skipped high school graduation, relocated to Los Angeles after winning the competition in the hope of becoming a successful mainstream a cappella group. Throughout the next six months, they released cover versions of songs like 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Gotye featuring Kimbra, 'Gangnam Style' by PSY and 'We Are Young' by Fun, which went viral.
They released their first EP, 'PTX, Volume 1', on June 26, 2012, followed by promotional press appearances on 'Access Hollywood', 'The Buzz', 'Marie', and local television shows. They featured as guests on the Chinese version of 'The Sing-Off' and went on their first national headlining tour covering sold out venues in 30 countries in 2012.
On November 13, 2012, Pentatonix released their Christmas EP, 'PTXmas', a deluxe edition of which was re-released the following year on November 19, 2013 with two new tracks. They were on their second national headlining tour in early 2013, and on November 5th that year, released their second EP, 'PTX, Vol. II', which contained a 'Grammy'-winning medley of Daft Punk songs.
2014 saw the release of two of their albums, their third EP, 'PTX, Vol. III', released on September 23, and their second full-length Christmas album, 'That's Christmas to Me', released on October 21. While the first one debuted at No.5 on the 'Billboard 200', the second one had a peak position of No.2 on the same chart.
While they had both cover versions and a few original songs this far, they transitioned towards original music in 2015 and their subsequent self-titled album, 'Pentatonix', released on October 16, 2015, contained mostly original tracks. It was followed by another full-length Christmas album, 'A Pentatonix Christmas', which was released on October 21, 2016.
In May 2016, she and her Pentatonix band mates Grassi and Hoying appeared in the episode 'The Strike in the Chord' of the crime drama series 'Bones', portraying the college a cappella group 'The Gingersnaps'.
Following the release of their fifth EP, 'PTX, Vol. IV – Classics', on April 7, 2017, Avi Kaplan left the group due to his inability to balance tour dates and family time. He was replaced by Matt Sallee in October, and since then the band has released their sixth studio album, 'PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I' on April 13, 2018.
Solo Career
Together with Scott Alan, Kirstin Maldonado performed the song 'Never Neverland' at the Hippodrome, London in May 2014. A dog lover, she performed 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' at the 'World Dog Awards' in January 2016 to honor the dogs who have played the role of Toto in 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Along with her fiancé Jeremy Michael Lewis, she teamed up with the a cappella group Voctave in February 2016 to work on the video 'Disney Love Medley'. It featured the couple performing the songs 'I See the Light' from 'Tangled', 'You'll Be in My Heart' from 'Tarzan' and 'Go the Distance' from 'Hercules', with Voctave members providing backing vocals.
She released her first solo single, 'Break a Little', on May 19, 2017, followed by her debut EP 'L O V E', released on July 14, 2017. That year, on August 31, she collaborated with Play-N-Skillz on the track 'Hey Guapo'.
On February 2nd, 2018, she made her Broadway debut as Lauren opposite singer Jake Shears in the Tony-winning musical 'Kinky Boots' at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Major Works
Among Kirstin Maldonado's six studio albums from Pentatonix, the self-titled 2015 album and the 2016 holiday album 'A Pentatonix Christmas' have reached the top of the US 'Billboard' chart. 'That's Christmas to Me' and 'A Pentatonix Christmas' have been certified platinum, while 'Pentatonix' was certified gold in the USA.
Personal Life & Legacy
Kirstin Maldonado got engaged to Jeremy Michael Lewis on May 29, 2016 after three years of dating. While they were supposed to get married in November 2017, the wedding was postponed to resolve certain unstated issues.
Trivia
Kirstin Maldonado and her fiancé own two huskies together and have named them Olaf and Pascal after Disney characters.
She stylizes her name as kırstın™, with TM standing for Taylor Maldonado. She has at least eight tattoos on her body.
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Kirstin Maldonado biography timelines
- // 16th May 1992Kirstin Taylor "Kirstie" Maldonado was born on May 16, 1992 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, to Mexican father Michael Cisneros and Spanish-Italian mother Angelica Maldonado. She has been raised by her mother in Arlington, Texas.
- // 2010She attended Holy Rosary Catholic School for a time before transferring to Martin High School, where she met Scott Hoying, another member of her future band. After completing her school graduation in 2010, she enrolled into a Musical Theatre Performance major course at the University of Oklahoma, but dropped out of college in her sophomore year to form ‘Pentatonix’.
- // 2011Scott Hoying contacted Maldonado in 2011 with the proposal to form a group to enter NBC's a cappella competition 'The Sing-Off'. The group, named 'Pentatonix' after the pentatonic scale, also included Mitch Grassi, as well as bass artist Avi Kaplan and beatboxer Kevin Olusola.
- // 19th Sep 2011 To 28th Nov 2011As one of the 16 competing teams, the group entered the third season of 'The Sing-Off', which went on air on September 19, 2011. After 11 episodes spanning over a month, the group was crowned the winner of the competition on November 28, 2011, earning $200,000 and a recording contract with Sony Music.
- // 26th Jun 2012They released their first EP, 'PTX, Volume 1', on June 26, 2012, followed by promotional press appearances on 'Access Hollywood', 'The Buzz', 'Marie', and local television shows. They featured as guests on the Chinese version of 'The Sing-Off' and went on their first national headlining tour covering sold out venues in 30 countries in 2012.
- // 20142014 saw the release of two of their albums, their third EP, 'PTX, Vol. III', released on September 23, and their second full-length Christmas album, 'That's Christmas to Me', released on October 21. While the first one debuted at No.5 on the 'Billboard 200', the second one had a peak position of No.2 on the same chart.
- // May 2014 To Jan 2016Together with Scott Alan, Kirstin Maldonado performed the song 'Never Neverland' at the Hippodrome, London in May 2014. A dog lover, she performed 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' at the 'World Dog Awards' in January 2016 to honor the dogs who have played the role of Toto in 'The Wizard of Oz'.
- // 2015 To 2016Among Kirstin Maldonado's six studio albums from Pentatonix, the self-titled 2015 album and the 2016 holiday album 'A Pentatonix Christmas' have reached the top of the US 'Billboard' chart. 'That's Christmas to Me' and 'A Pentatonix Christmas' have been certified platinum, while 'Pentatonix' was certified gold in the USA.
- // Feb 2016Along with her fiancé Jeremy Michael Lewis, she teamed up with the a cappella group Voctave in February 2016 to work on the video 'Disney Love Medley'. It featured the couple performing the songs 'I See the Light' from 'Tangled', 'You'll Be in My Heart' from 'Tarzan' and 'Go the Distance' from 'Hercules', with Voctave members providing backing vocals.
- // May 2016In May 2016, she and her Pentatonix band mates Grassi and Hoying appeared in the episode 'The Strike in the Chord' of the crime drama series 'Bones', portraying the college a cappella group 'The Gingersnaps'.
- // 29th May 2016 To Nov 2017Kirstin Maldonado got engaged to Jeremy Michael Lewis on May 29, 2016 after three years of dating. While they were supposed to get married in November 2017, the wedding was postponed to resolve certain unstated issues.
- // 7th Apr 2017 To 13th Apr 2018Following the release of their fifth EP, 'PTX, Vol. IV – Classics', on April 7, 2017, Avi Kaplan left the group due to his inability to balance tour dates and family time. He was replaced by Matt Sallee in October, and since then the band has released their sixth studio album, 'PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I' on April 13, 2018.
- // 19th May 2017 To 14th Jul 2017She released her first solo single, 'Break a Little', on May 19, 2017, followed by her debut EP 'L O V E', released on July 14, 2017. That year, on August 31, she collaborated with Play-N-Skillz on the track 'Hey Guapo'.
- // 2nd Feb 2018On February 2nd, 2018, she made her Broadway debut as Lauren opposite singer Jake Shears in the Tony-winning musical 'Kinky Boots' at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
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Kirstin Maldonado's nationalities is American
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Kirstin Maldonado's height is 163
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Kirstin Maldonado's father is Michael Cisneros
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