
Keeira Lyn Ford: From Child Star to Rising Country Music Icon
Season 3 Episode 5 | 7m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Local child star now actress, singer, songwriter Keeira Lyn Ford shines bright on Arizona PBS.
Keeira Lyn Ford is an actress, model, singer and songwriter with an extensive and impressive career spanning two decades. Ford has won hundreds of beauty pageants as a child and performed alongside country music legend Garth Brooks. Ford was handpicked to perform at Michael Jackson's Neverland by Michael's father, Joe Jackson. She performed new music from her upcoming album on "Playlist 48."
Playlist 48 is a local public television program presented by Arizona PBS

Keeira Lyn Ford: From Child Star to Rising Country Music Icon
Season 3 Episode 5 | 7m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Keeira Lyn Ford is an actress, model, singer and songwriter with an extensive and impressive career spanning two decades. Ford has won hundreds of beauty pageants as a child and performed alongside country music legend Garth Brooks. Ford was handpicked to perform at Michael Jackson's Neverland by Michael's father, Joe Jackson. She performed new music from her upcoming album on "Playlist 48."
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(graphic whooshing) (cursor clicking) (graphic whooshing) (upbeat country music) ♪ Walking in the house like a regular day ♪ ♪ But being here doesn't feel the same ♪ ♪ I still see our pictures on the wall ♪ ♪ The smell of your cologne walking down the hall ♪ ♪ Hole in the sole boot prints on the floor ♪ ♪ Gonna drag me in the mud anymore ♪ ♪ Can't wait to throw your tools away ♪ ♪ And the Christmas present your mother gave ♪ ♪ Today I'm gonna clean house ♪ Throw all memories out ♪ Forget about you and us ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust (upbeat country music continues) ♪ Leave the key to my heart under the mat ♪ ♪ 'Cause trust me, you won't be needing that ♪ ♪ I'm washing away what once was love ♪ ♪ 'Cause now I see it's nothing but stuff ♪ ♪ I can see who you are down to the core ♪ ♪ Ain't gonna fool me with your lies anymore ♪ ♪ Can't wait to throw your ring away ♪ ♪ With the broken promise that you made ♪ ♪ Today I'm gonna clean house ♪ Throw all memories out ♪ Forget about you and us ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ No more voicemails with our name ♪ ♪ No more taking all the blame ♪ No more hogging the TV ♪ No more dirty laundry ♪ Woo (upbeat country music continues) ♪ Today I'm gonna clean house ♪ Throw all memories out ♪ Forget about you and us ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ Today I'm gonna clean house ♪ Throw all memories out ♪ Forget about you and us ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ Done holding on to all this junk ♪ ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ Yeah, I'm sweeping out the dust ♪ ♪ Woo (upbeat country music continues) (graphic whooshing) (cursor clicking) (graphic whooshing) Before I could speak, I could hear music in my brain.
Like, I just knew somehow that I had a connection to it.
My grandmother was a singer, my dad plays the saxophone for Little Richard before Little Richard passed away, even before I was born, he played the baritone sax for him, so I always was around music.
It was just an intuition.
I've just always known that I could sing, and it's just something that God blessed me with.
I also love acting.
I was a child actor in Los Angeles.
I had some pretty good success.
When people ask me do I love singing better or do I love acting better, I wouldn't be able to say because it just varies.
One day my acting is going well, the next day, I wanna quit.
One day, music is really going for me, I'm singing the national anthem in the stadium, the next day, nobody's calling me.
(chuckling) So it's like, it's a love hate relationship with both, and I feel like they intertwine, because when I'm singing, I'm telling a story, I'm acting it out.
And I would love, like, my biggest dream in life is to still, I don't care, when I'm 90 years old, I wanna be a Disney princess.
It would be so amazing to intertwine singing and acting, that is, and in a voiceover with music, (sighing) that would just be like, the ultimate dream.
(graphic whooshing) (cursor clicking) (graphic whooshing) (upbeat country music) ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ I need someone to give my loving to ♪ ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ And I want that somebody to be you ♪ ♪ I've searched the whole world over ♪ ♪ For a love I thought was right ♪ ♪ I think I finally found that love ♪ ♪ In your arms tonight ♪ No has ever thrilled me quite ♪ ♪ The way your kisses do ♪ I need someone to hold me tight ♪ ♪ And that someone is you ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ I need someone to give my loving to ♪ ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ And I want that somebody to be you ♪ (upbeat country music continues) ♪ For everyone there is someone ♪ ♪ So often I've been told ♪ But I want you for my someone ♪ ♪ To have and to hold ♪ So take me now into your world ♪ ♪ And make my dreams come true ♪ I need someone to hold this girl ♪ ♪ And that someone is you ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ I need someone to give my loving to ♪ ♪ I wanna be somebody's somebody ♪ ♪ And I want that somebody to be you ♪ ♪ You know I wanna be ♪ Somebody's somebody ♪ And I want that somebody to be you ♪ (upbeat country music continues)
Playlist 48 is a local public television program presented by Arizona PBS