1391Ally submitted this SOTM from Texas, USA. She wrote: “I've always been completely stage fright, but have a talent that needs me to not be so. I have a twin brother who has always told me that I need to just break away from the fear, that ‘a life lived in fear is only a life half lived.’

"Ever since that day I have slowly been creeping out from my shell and recording the music I couldn’t before. Step by step that quote will be repeating in my head.” I asked for an example of her singing, and she sent her MySpace page which demonstrates her very beautiful voice.