Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 42 - October 21, 2021
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Celebrating the Grand Opening
of the New YOLA Center
The highly anticipated Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center (BYC), the new home for the LA Phil’s Youth Orchestra program, officially opened its doors following a ceremonial ribbon-cutting with
community partners and members of the LA Phil family including CEO Chad Smith, LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, architect Frank Gehry and the Inglewood City Council. The BYC is the first
permanent home of YOLA and provides free music education to communities throughout Los Angeles County. What a historic day. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood.
High Schooler Holds Guinness
World Record Through Music
By Kiersten Vannest
Eighty countries. Eighty languages. One
powerful voice.
Capri Everitt, a seventeen-year-old star on
the rise and recent citizen of El Segundo,
traveled the world at twelve years old to
sing the national anthem of eighty different
countries in their native language, giving her
a Guinness World Record and making her
an international singer.
Originally from Canada, Everitt began
singing at the age of five years old. Wanting
to cultivate the things she liked to do,
her parents put her in singing lessons. Her
skills blossomed, and she picked up piano
and guitar. Inspired by strong singers like
Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey, she
developed her voice to be clear and strong.
When Capri wanted to sing around the
world, her parents supported her by homeschooling
her for a year and picking up and
traveling
Whether it was people nearby or in foreign
embassies, Everitt found native speakers
of each country’s language to go over the
national anthem with her for accuracy and
make sure that she was singing anthems in
a way that would be politically acceptable.
She learned all eighty anthems before her
trip and spent about three to four days in
each country.
But winning a world record wasn’t on her radar
when she set out. “Kind of the whole point
of the journey was to raise money for SOS
Children’s Villages, which gives homes
to orphaned and abandoned children,” she
says. SOS Children’s Villages is a nonprofit
organization that uses a combined model of
short-term aid and long-term guidance to
provide for impoverished children, vulnerable
children, and children at risk of growing up
alone. This guidance includes education, life
skills training, family building and strengthening,
and more.
“I immediately connected with the charity
because what they do is, they build homes.
So, they’ll have an adoptive mother and
about eight to ten kids, but the kids that
are grouped together are now siblings, and
so it’s really incredible,” she says. Everitt
stayed in the Villages in about forty of the
countries she traveled to, so she got to see
the organization’s work firsthand.
On her trip, Everitt was featured on over one
hundred media news articles, spreading the
message of SOS and spurring donations
globally. She succeeded in getting the program
some major donors, such as the prime
minister of Iceland.
The Guinness World Records didn’t become
a part of her journey until they made
Capri Everitt is in the studio at least two times a week, recording
and working on new music.
to her, so she most hopes that listeners take
away a feeling after listening to her music.
If it’s happy, she wants them to get up and
dance. If it’s sad, she wants them to feel that
too and connect with her.
One message that she wants to stay
consistent in her work is that of women’s
empowerment. “I feel like it’s really important
to stick with a message of girls are equal to
boys because you’d be surprised, a lot of
people would be surprised, at the way girls
are treated in countries like Cambodia and
Laos,” she says. Much of her music is drawn
from her experiences abroad, and she hopes
to inspire generations of young women to
stand up. Although she did not sing in the
countries with the strictest restrictions on
women, she sang with the Children’s Villages
for her safety and theirs in the countries that
were not as accepting of women.
Currently, Everitt releases music on stream-
their way to England. The official office for
the World Records happened to be nearby,
and her dad agreed to take her in, just to
ask if there was a record being made with
her travels. Initially being turned away by
reception, Capri asked for just a couple of
minutes. An executive came down, and after
hearing their story, brought them upstairs and
made things official.
Everitt’s musical inspirations come from
artists like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.
She writes her music in the same sort of
personal, authentic way that made these pop
artists famous. She writes her songs based on
her feelings and things that have happened See Capri Everitt, page 4