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I got this in email from Mason James from “To The Fallen” Records. RV

Tonight, Nashville Star, the world’s only country music talent competition makes its NBC debut at 9pm. On the show is one of our artists, Tommy Stanley. He is active duty Navy and an unbelievable talent. Please watch the show to support him and call in to vote for him at every opportunity. Tell all your shipmates, fellow soldiers, marines and airmen.

We need to support our own!

Thanks for your continued support and we hope you enjoy the show!

V/R,

Mason James
A&R
To The Fallen Records

‘Nashville Star’ Reveals Its Top 12

-Entertainment Tonight

“Nashville Star” today announced the Top 12 guys and gals who will compete to win the recording contract that comes with the title. “Hannah Montana” star BILLY RAY CYRUS will host the show, which will be judged by JOHN RICH of BIG & RICH, Grammy nominated recording artist JEWEL and award-winning songwriter/producer JEFFREY STEELE.

Among the Top 12 is TOMMY STANLEY, 23, a sailor working as an engineer on the USS Kitty Hawk stationed in Japan at the time he filmed his audition tape. He was flown to Virginia for the military audition aboard the Iwo Jima and will be given the opportunity to see his father for the first time in a year — and his mom for the first time in three years.

The other 11 contestants are:
ALYSON GILBERT, 28, Jackson, TN
ASHLEE HEWITT, 20, Nashville, TN
CHARLEY JENKINS, 29, Murray, UT
COFFEY, 28, Los Angeles, CA
GABE GARCIA, 28, Dickson, TN
JUSTIN GASTON, 19, Los Angeles, CA
LAURA FEDOR, 18, and SOPHIE ZALOKAR, 16, Willoughby, OH
MELISSA LAWSON, 32, Dalworthington Gardens, TX
PEARL HEART — AMY, 20, ANGELA, 20, and COURTNEY KRECHEL, 17, Thompson’s Station, TN
SHAWN MAYER, 21, Madison, TN
THIRD TOWN — JEFFREY FAIRCHILD, 37, JAMES A. KOUNS (aka Little Tony), 29, and TONY MOSTI, 35, Las Vegas, NV

TAYLOR SWIFT, the 2008 ACM Best New Female Vocalist, will perform in front of a packed audience at the Acuff Theater, part of the Opry Entertainment Complex, in Nashville, when the series premieres on Monday, June 9 at 9p.m.

Series to Debut Monday, June 9 on NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Premiere Will Feature a Performance by Taylor Swift — 2008 ACM Best New Female Vocalist

BURBANK, Calif. - June 4, 2008 - From a 32-year-old mother of five to two high-school friends who dream of making it as a duet, NBC’s “Nashville Star” revealed the top-12 music acts that will be vying for the crown when it kick-starts its first season on NBC on Monday, June 9 (9-11 p.m. ET).

The-top 12 finalists sang their hearts out during the taping of the “Nashville Star” premiere last Monday (subsequent episodes will be live) in front of a packed audience at the Acuff Theater, part of the Opry Entertainment Complex, in Nashville. In episode one the performers have to impress the show’s judges/mentors multi-platinum singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy nominee Jewel and John Rich — multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and producer and one half of the country duo Big & Rich — and award-winning songwriter and hit-making producer Jeffrey Steele. In the end the celebrity panel tells one act that their dream ends here. Beginning week two America decides who will return to the stage next week and who will pack up their guitars and head home.