A 13-year-old from Portage la Prairie is set to take the stage at the Manitoba Voice Amateur Talent Contest, hoping to make an impression with both her voice and her message.<\/p>\n
Ella Rintoul, a Grade 8 student at Westpark School, says she decided to enter the competition after learning about it over the summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe registration was in August. I found out about it and then thought about it for a little while and decided I wanted to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharing faith through song<\/p>\n
Ella says her goal in performing is simple \u2014 to share her faith through her music.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do it just to spread the word of Jesus through my music. I\u2019m singing \u2018Still Rolling Stones\u2019 by Lauren Daigle.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says the song choice came naturally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking from the start that I wanted to sing a Christian song.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ella first discovered her passion for singing around Grade 5 and says she\u2019s continued ever since because it brings her closer to her faith.<\/p>\n
A new experience in front of a crowd<\/p>\n
While Ella has performed at school talent shows in the past, she says this is her first major competition, and she\u2019s feeling both nervous and excited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve sung at the Westpark Middle Years talent show before, but I\u2019ve never done a big competition like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ella admits that competing against adults in the contest adds to the nerves, but she\u2019s staying positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a little bit nervous just to be competing against adults, but I still think I have a chance.”<\/p>\n
Her mother, who also enjoys singing, says she\u2019s proud of Ella for stepping up to the challenge \u2014 even if it\u2019s nerve-wracking from a parent\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a mom, I feel like I\u2019m more nervous when my child is on stage than when I\u2019m on stage,\u201d she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
Balancing skating, school, and music<\/p>\n
Outside of singing, Ella keeps busy with school and figure skating, taking part in events like Skate Virden, provincials, and competitions in Stony Mountain.<\/p>\n
She also spends a lot of time at the rink supporting her brothers, who both play hockey.<\/p>\n
Despite her busy schedule, Ella says she hopes to keep music at the heart of her future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to spread the word of the gospel through music and maybe make that part of a career.\u201d<\/p>\n
The contest begins at 7:30 p.m. at the William Glesby Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old from Portage la Prairie is set to take the stage at the Manitoba Voice Amateur Talent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-240475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}