Arts & Entertainment

Young Musician Makes Live Debut

Fox Lane student and Mount Kisco native Anastasia Ferraro is hoping to become a YouTube star.

Shoppers at Pleasantville's recent Sidewalk Sale were treated to a live musical performance as Mount Kisco's Anastasia Ferraro made her debut singing in public.

Following in her father's musical footsteps, the 15-year-old Fox Lane High School student is looking to make a career on YouTube.

"I've been playing piano since I was three-ish and I started playing guitar two years ago," said Ferraro.

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Inspired by other musicians who have made it big after their videos went viral on YouTube, like Christina Grimmie, Ferraro hopes to experience similar success as a vocalist.

"She's really good, I think," Ferraro said of Grimmie. "She's kind of an influence because she got famous off the internet."

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So far, she has penned five original songs—"It's usually the lyrics I have a tough time with," Ferraro admitted.

"In a perfect world, I want to make it as a singer," she said. "But, I have plans Bs, and Cs and Ds. If it doesn't work out, I will go for neurology."

Ferraro said she has sang in front of people before, but performing on the corner of Wheeler Avenue and Manville Road in Pleasantville on a busy Saturday was a new kind of experience.

"It was weird," she said. "I saw a lot of people stop in their cars and look, which was weird, because that has never happened."

Click here to check out Ferraro's website.


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