arch 15, 2010
Ray Scollin wins Red Cross' Valdosta Superstar
Dean Poling The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA - Valdosta has a new Superstar.
Ray Scollin won this weekend's American Red Cross Valdosta Superstar competition at Mathis City Auditorium.
Scollin, 22, was one of 14 contestants taking the stage in the competition's performance portion. The final contestants made it through two previous audition rounds in earlier weeks to perform in Saturday night's Valdosta Superstar.
Scollin began playing guitar at the age of 12, according to biography information provided by the Valdosta chapter of the American Red Cross. He has long been attracted to writing his own songs.
"This aspiring songwriter has written two albums worth of songs, both original music and with a band," according to bio information. "He has been slowly building a recording studio in his home after returning from New York where he lived and went to school for music and audio engineering."
The American Red Cross describes Scollin's music as "heartfelt and descriptive in subject matter stemming anywhere from the loss of friends, how it feels to fall in and out of love, or living in a new city."
As the Valdosta Superstar winner, Scollin receives a "star-treatment package" from Wild Adventures, which includes performing the National Anthem during the park's All-American Weekend celebration, July 4. He also receives a three-song professional demo pack from The Group Recording Studio.
Second-place winner: Mary Peeples, a 10-year-old Valwood student, who has also performed in productions by Gingerbread Players of Theatre Guild Valdosta and Peach State Summer Theatre.
Third-place winner: Phillip Jackson, an Akron, Ohio native from a musical family, and has been singing since the age of 3.
He has won many awards for his singing.
All proceeds from Valdosta Superstar benefit American Red Cross services in Brooks, Lowndes, Lanier and Echols counties, said Terri Whitlock, local American Red Cross executive director.
Ray Scollin won this weekend's American Red Cross Valdosta Superstar competition at Mathis City Auditorium.
Scollin, 22, was one of 14 contestants taking the stage in the competition's performance portion. The final contestants made it through two previous audition rounds in earlier weeks to perform in Saturday night's Valdosta Superstar.
Scollin began playing guitar at the age of 12, according to biography information provided by the Valdosta chapter of the American Red Cross. He has long been attracted to writing his own songs.
"This aspiring songwriter has written two albums worth of songs, both original music and with a band," according to bio information. "He has been slowly building a recording studio in his home after returning from New York where he lived and went to school for music and audio engineering."
The American Red Cross describes Scollin's music as "heartfelt and descriptive in subject matter stemming anywhere from the loss of friends, how it feels to fall in and out of love, or living in a new city."
As the Valdosta Superstar winner, Scollin receives a "star-treatment package" from Wild Adventures, which includes performing the National Anthem during the park's All-American Weekend celebration, July 4. He also receives a three-song professional demo pack from The Group Recording Studio.
Second-place winner: Mary Peeples, a 10-year-old Valwood student, who has also performed in productions by Gingerbread Players of Theatre Guild Valdosta and Peach State Summer Theatre.
Third-place winner: Phillip Jackson, an Akron, Ohio native from a musical family, and has been singing since the age of 3.
He has won many awards for his singing.
All proceeds from Valdosta Superstar benefit American Red Cross services in Brooks, Lowndes, Lanier and Echols counties, said Terri Whitlock, local American Red Cross executive director.
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