“I want to sing forever,” says fourteen-year-old Lindee Link. She is well on her way to that goal. She has been singing for half her life. “When I was seven years old there was this show called American’s Most Talented Kids and they had a bunch of singers on there. I would always watch that and be like, ‘Mom, I want to be on that show so badly, I want to go sing.’ She wasn’t ready for me to be on TV. It got to the point where I would write down the number and at the end of the show I’d say, ‘Mom, call this number. I really want to go sing,’” Lindee says.

Seeing her daughter was determined, Lindee’s mom set about figuring out what to do with her budding star, “My mom started talking around our church asking people, ‘What do I do? She wants to sing.’ There was a couple at the church who knew a producer in Nashville who my mom contacted and he knew this lady in Nashville who books kids to sing on Veggie Tales and some Disney projects. She contacted her and asked for an audition. The next day we flew out to Nashville and she gave me an audition. After that she was booking me on Veggie Tales and stuff like that. It was amazing. I was only eight years old when I started doing this so I’ve had a lot of experience in the studio. It’s was much fun I get to hang out with other kids my age who were singing there. It was incredible.”

The little girl who started life in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moved with her military family to Minneapolis, then Texas and now resides in Georgia, got her name from another long distance traveler. “I got my name from the pilot Charles Lindberg he was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean his nickname was ‘Lucky Lindy.’ My dad is a pilot, so when my mom found the name, she thought it would be perfect for me.”

Her move to Georgia, when she was ten years old, prompted her to write the song, New Kid in Town. She says adjusting to her new surroundings was, “a pretty life changing experience. “

“I am the oldest of four. I have ten-year-old sister, Lacey, an eight-year brother Markus, and a seven-year-old sister, Madee. My sister, who’s ten, loves to act. My seven-year-old sister loves to sing too. My brother can sing, he’s really good, but he’s not really into it. He’s really smart and he’s into school. I love my family so much. They have sacrificed so much just so I can be living my dream. They are incredible,” she says.

Home schooled for the last few years, Lindee is looking forward to starting public school next year, even though she may have to cut back on her singing a bit. “With home schooling I get my work done a lot faster, I can focus on music and I can go to Nashville when I need to. Going to school will definitely be a challenge. We’ll have to work singing on weekends, but I think I’ll manage.”

She wrote five of the seven songs on her new CD named, like her first single, New Kid in Town. It is now available on iTunes. “Making the CD was a lot of fun, but also a lot of hard work. You spend hours in the studio but it’s a ton of fun,” she says. Her single is already getting some unexpected airplay, “I got a call from my grandma one morning and she goes, ‘Lindee, I just heard your song at Kohl’s.’ We called my manager and said my grandma thought she had heard my song. She contacted a bunch of people and called back and was like, ‘Yeah, your music’s in Kohl’s!’ I started screaming and was like, ‘Wow, that is so cool!’”

Lindee’s busy life includes vocal and acting lessons, but she still finds some time to be a normal teenager, “I love to hang out with my friends. Sometimes we’ll go to the park, or the movies, or just hang out at the house. Other than that everything is basically music,” she says. “I’ve been performing in front of people since I was eleven. It’s a lot of fun. I got to sing the National Anthem at a Braves game last summer that was pretty cool. I’ve also sang at the Relay for Life this will be my third year.”

The veteran with seven years of experience knows the importance of determination, hard work and making your own luck, “If any of you out there want to sing just keep singing everywhere. You never know who’s going to hear you. Sing at church, at school, wherever, just keep singing.”