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Nicole Scherzinger on how creating her own show led to starring in 'Annie Live!'

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KbE08jk9e14?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>In NBC&#x27;s upcoming musical event, &#x27;Annie Live!,&#x27; Nicole Scherzinger plays Grace Farrell who becomes the orphan&#x27;s mother figure.</p><p>Scherzinger admits she gets nervous everytime she goes on stage. &quot;I think that it&#x27;s natural. You just have to channel and harness those nerves; and just remind yourself why you&#x27;re even on stage. I think that&#x27;s the most important thing. I didn&#x27;t choose this job. This job chose me. You know, I came out of my mama singing. It&#x27;s the best way I know how to communicate, connect with people, touch people&#x27;s hearts. And that&#x27;s the most important thing even when you get nervous because I&#x27;m a perfectionist and I put a lot of expectation on myself. You realize and remember why you&#x27;re doing it. It&#x27;s bigger than you, goes beyond you. And you&#x27;re able to settle in, be at peace, and be at home onstage,&quot; Scherzinger says.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Nicole Scherzinger in Annie Live!" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tfc/11/30/20211130_nicole-in-annie-courtesy-nbc.jpg"/><figcaption>Nicole Scherzinger plays Grace Farrell in &#x27;Annie Live!&#x27; Photo courtesy: NBC</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Filipino American singer-actress, who&#x27;s also part of the Fox TV show &#x27;The Masked Singer&#x27; started performing at 14 years old. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop group, The Pussycat Dolls.</p><p>&quot;There&#x27;s been many times in this industry that I wasn&#x27;t given the opportunity to audition for things, even to be seen for things. And so what I did right before the pandemic is I created my own show. From that show that I put on, one of my showcases I did, the casting and the producers were reminded of my talents, by the grace of God. And then they cast me for this.&quot;</p><p>Scherzinger has always been proud of her Filipino heritage. She was part of the Filipino cast of &#x27;Trese&#x27; and sang Tagalog songs in Troy Laureta&#x27;s albums. &quot;It’s in my blood, you know. On the Filipino side of my family, like all my cousins can sing. Beautiful voices from the heavens, strong musicians. And the Filipino heritage, literally, I don&#x27;t know, many Filipinos that cannot sing, right?&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="" Annie="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tfc/11/30/20211130_annie-live-cast-courtesy-nbc.jpg"/><figcaption>&#x27;Annie Live!&#x27; cast. Photo courtesy: NBC</figcaption></figure></div><p>For &#x27;Annie Live!,&#x27; she will perform with Celina Smith, Harry Connick Jr., Taraji P. Henson, and Tituss Burgess. The musical will be performed live on Broadway and aired on NBC.</p>

Fil-Am singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger shares how creating her own show led to her starring in NBC’s upcoming holiday musical event.