Carly obviously has practiced, practiced and practiced some more. She has obviously had singing lessons and practiced breathing exercises and must do them daily.

A performance like that is one that arises from a lot of work and practice. Carly Rose is an inspiration of what dedication is all about and shows how to become a famous singer at age 13.

She has been involved with musical theatre for over 6 years and according to her parents has been singing since she was aged 2, when she started imitating singers on American Idol.

At the age of 13 she is amazing and a big thanks needs to go to her parents for supporting her from a young age in allowing her to pursue her interests and developing her performing talents.

This X Factor USA audition is a lesson in itself. How to perform. How to use your voice. And how several years of dedicated practice can absolutely wow a live audience of almost 5,000 and an international audience of millions.

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Four years ago, I interviewed a tiny Carly Rose Sonenclar, then a bubbly second-grader at F.E. Bellows Elementary School in Mamaroneck.

She had been cast as “Young Cosette” in “Les Miserables” on Broadway. (Photo by Joan Marcus.)

Three years later, I caught up with Carly again, backstage at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse (photo below, by yours truly), where she was appearing in the national tour of the “Little House on the Prairie” musical, which starred Melissa Gilbert as “Ma.” Carly was taller, more mature, but still bubbly.

I then saw her at an industry reading of “Wallenberg: The Musical,” by Laurence Holzman and Felicia Needleman, two Westchesterites who would go on to lead a reimagined White Plains PAC as a home for new works. Carly was still sparkling, but stayed in character in the musical about the heroic Swedish diplomat in WWII Hungary.

Now, Carly is one of the stars of the PBS series “The Electric Company,” (below, photo by Richard Termine) and is Broadway-bound again, this time in Frank Wildhorn’s musical, “Wonderland,” starring Karen Mason, who made a memorable Momma Rose in “Gypsy” at Westchester Broadway Theatre a few years ago.

Here’s a link to Carly’s “Electric Company” solo, “That’s Just Me.”

Stay tuned.

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