"Dusty" has one of the best voices on TV these days, and here she tells how singing made her acting dream come true!
Right On: So what's it like being on Fame? How do you enjoy being on the show?
Loretta: I love it! The series is great! I'm doing everything I ever wanted. I sing, record, dance, work with different directors and actors. I'm meeting all of these major talented people and it is just really great! What a wonderful experience. Everyone has been so helpful and very supportive. It's really like a family here and they work very hard to make it like that.
Right On: Is this the first series you've ever appeard on?
Loretta: It's my first time ever on television. I was very lucky to get the part. I went on an open call audition... really just hoping to see some Stars. (I always wanted to be one but didn't know what my chances would be like.) I wend down and sang for the audition and afterwards they had me dance. Then I was asked to come back again and read. When I came back for the reading they asked me to sing again, so I sang a song I wrote, its called, "Learning To Love Me". I think it's want got me the part. It just seem to blow them over.
Right On: What kind of song was it?
Loretta: It's has a Gospel feel. I wrote it while I was in college trying to get through finals and stuff. I was having a rough time so I poured a little bit of myself into a song. And it worked.
Right On: Were they going to create a character around you?
Loretta: Yes! They asked a lot of questions about my background and what it was like trying to be a star, since that's what the show is based on. I told then I was a preacher's daughter and that made it kind of difficult becasue of how some people felt about the whole thing.
Right On: And that's just how "Dusty" is on FAME. What other similarities are there between you and her?
Loretta: OK, both are preacher's daughters and we're both from Pueblo Colorado. We both want to be stars, but "Dusty is a little more forceful than I am. I usually wait my turn for something to happen. "Dusty" is more aggresive, but I'm starting to learn a few things from my character, like you have to make your own situations happen; you can't be scared to go ahead and do it!