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3 5 | Thursday July 2 0 , 2 0 1 7 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insidehalton.com Marta Marychuk Reporter mmarychuk@oakvillebeaver.com Artscene "Connected to your Community " Form er Oakville singer perform ing in Singapore by Marta Marychuk Oakville Beaver Staff Former Oakville resident Flo Olavarria re cently had an opportunity to perform live with fellow Canadian David Foster, one of her biggest musical influences and inspira tions. The 17-year-old is currently in Singapore with her father, who works there, and is in her last year of high school. Flo performs regularly around Singapore and likes to take as many acting opportuni ties as she can. She was most recently a part of a Hollywood film that was being filmed in Singapore -- when she performed with Foster. Foster, one of the most successful record producers in history, has won 16 Grammy Awards, including three for Producer of the Year, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, and racked up three Oscar nominations for Best Original Song. In June 2010, he was induct ed into the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame. "I love making the most of all the perfor mance opportunities I get," said Flo. Her vocal coach shared a video of Flo singing on Facebook, and Foster's music pro moter stumbled upon it. "It's actually a funny story," said Flo. "I didn't meet David until the actual perfor Flo Olavarria, formerly of Oakville, performs regularly around Singapore and recently performed with David Foster. | supplied photo mance. So I was especially excited and ner vous before going on stage." "However, as soon as I began singing the frst few words of the song, all of the nerves I had just faded away," she added. "I felt so much happiness, joy and love while perform ing that song. "It's a feeling and experience I will remem ber for the rest of my life," she said. Flo performed a medley of songs from the movie The Bodyguard. Foster and Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You earned the duo three Grammys and was later listed as one of Billboard's greatest songs of all time. Flo was actually born in Chile and lived there until she was fve. Her family then see Flo's on p. 3 6 f ilm c a 9 0 5 -3 3 8 -6 3 9 7 cinemas www.film.ca ( j facebook.com/filmca I l| ©FilmCaCinemas ) 171 Speers Road (at Kerr) Oakville DESPICABLE M E (G) JUNE 30 spiDER-MAN: HoME CoMING (pG) july 7 war for the planet of the apes (stc) july 14 DUNKIRK (STC) JULY 21 the emoji movie july 28 (sTC)