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Getting noticed by a scout is what aspiring singers, models, actors and actresses dream about.It’s a dream that often doesn’t come true, though it just did for Jamie Pineda of Fall River Mills.The 17-year-old singer and song writer was performing July 16 at the Orange County Fair where an agency scout liked what she heard.She asked Jamie to call her agency’s executive offifi cer.He interviewed her the next day, liked what he heard, too, and asked Jamie to return to Los Angeles the following week to record a four-song demo.The studio is preparing a contract that could be offered this week.“It was a real break,” said Jamie’s grandmother, Irene Pineda, owner of La Cocinita Restaurant in Fall River Mills.“They heard her sing, they saw her style, and they told her they were interested in signing her“Nothing is offifi cial yet, but it looks very, very interesting,” she said. “If she gets a contract, she’ll be making an album.”In addition to what may be the start of a professional singing career, Jamie is excited about the recording studio being next door to Snoop Dog’s and across from Mariah Carey’s.This is actually Jamie’s second contract offer.The last time she was 14. “A rep from a record agency in Los Angeles heard me singing on the deck (at La Cocinita) and said he’d call me, but my family said I was too young,” she said in an interview last year.Jamie is the daughter of Rusty and Vera Westlund of Fall River Mills.Two years later, she’s earned her General Education Diploma and is ready to devote her time to her music.‘She studied hard for her GED and now she’s 100 percent focused on her career,” her grandmother said.Irene, who was Jamie’s singing coach until she recently started taking professional lessons in Redding, is her also her manager and Jamie is still in the midst of the busy summer schedule Irene arranged.In June, Jamie performed at the Shasta District Fair in Anderson and then went on to win fair’s fifi rst Teen Idol contest and $500.She performed at the Alameda County Fair July 7-9, at the Santa Clara County Fair Aug. 5, and at the Klamath County Fair in Klamath Falls Aug. 12-14.She’ll be onstage at the Monterey County Fair today and tomorrow, and singing her mix of pop, country, R and B, and Hispanic songs at Cal Expo Aug. 20-21 for the California State Fair in Sacramento.About Jamie’s 2004 Fourth of July celebration performance, Cal Expo organizers said, “She did an excellent job for us and was professional both on and off stage.“She has an exceptional voice and has developed a following in our area.” Local fans will get to hear Jamie at the Inter-Mountain Fair in McArthur in her fifi rst performance there since she was 9.She is singing for the Scholarship Program, formerly called the Fair Queen Pageant, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, and again Saturday, Sept. 3, at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the Gazebo
