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From humble
beginnings...
 A native of Sacramento, California, Sandy was working at
Walt Disney Imagineering when, on a whim, she entered a
lip-sync contest through a local radio station. She won the
contest, lip-syncing a song by Barbara Mandrell, whom she
had always been told she resembled. The judges encouraged
Sandy to enter the celebrity impersonation field portraying
Mandrell, but soon a photographer told her, "It's really
Dolly Parton you look like". She put on a big blonde wig and
a low-cut dress, and saw the likeness herself. Within
months, Sandy answered a classified ad from Legends in
Concert looking for a Dolly impersonator. She was invited
for an audition that week, and hired on the spot.
Since then, she has performed through Legends in Concert
at prestigious venues in Las Vegas, Branson, Biloxi,
Atlantic City, and Myrtle Beach. She's traveled the world
and taken dream gigs on cruise ships. She's lived in
Tennessee, performing at Dollywood and in surrounding areas
where Dolly fans flock. She has performed with (the real)
Kenny Rogers, singing "Islands in the Stream", and opened up
for comedian Rich Little. She's been voted top Dolly
impersonator in the United States on the "Look-Alike Hotel
Reality Show", and has appeared on Cable TV networks CMT,
MTV, and VH-1. She has even been memorialized at the new
Nevada State Museum and Historical Society in Las Vegas,
where her likeness, costumes, wigs, and interviews are on
display.
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