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    when she accompanied Carrie Underwood at the 51st annual Grammy Awards. "It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards, and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty -- Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy" she remembers. Orianthi Panagaris first picked up an acoustic guitar as a six-year-old in Adelaide, on the southern tip of Australia. Full Article at CNN
    It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards, and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty -- Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
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Jackson guitarist Orianthi taking spotlight
  1. I got to jam with Prince, which is amazing. Getting to write a song with Steve Vai -- he was my first support
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  2. I really want to see it ... It's going to be hard for all of us. He was our leader. It was so devastating.
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  3. Going in and playing the 'Beat It' solo for him -- and he was just sitting on the couch staring at me -- it was very intense, and I was just praying to God I got it right.
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  4. I've been overseeing, writing my record and recording for two and a half years, and I'm [very] proud of it ... I just hope kids can come to our show and just be inspired to get home and pick up their guitars -- or ask their parents to buy it for Christmas. You know, drive their parents batty, and crank ...
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  5. I begged my dad to get me a secondhand electric guitar so I could be like Carlos
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  6. Getting to come in and audition for him, I'd never been that nervous in my life!
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  7. My grandmother is Orianthi. She's from this small island in Greece. I'm half Greek, half Australian
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago

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