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2004: As a student at Booker High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Center, Mercado played the Sour Kangaroo in a production of Seussical, the Musical. One of her castmates as Horton the Elephant was Charlie Barnett, who has gone on to star in numerous TV shows including Chicago Fire and Tales of the City.
2005: As a high school senior, Mercado had the female lead of Ti Moune, the central figure in the musical Once On This Island at Booker. She graduated that spring.
2005: She entered the freshman class at the University of Miami as a theater student.
2006: She left college after one year and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career. She was cast as one of 12 contestants on the ABC music competition series “The One: Making of a Music Star.” No one would be named the winner because the series was canceled after several episodes due to low ratings.
For two months, former American Idol finalist and Broadway performer Syesha Mercado has fought to get back her baby boy after the child was placed into foster care during what she thought was a routine trip to the hospital.
Mercado and her partner, Tyron Deener, took their 13-month-old son into Johns Hopkins All Children s Hospital in St. Petersburg on Feb. 26. The couple said their son, Amen Ra, was still breastfeeding when Mercado’s milk supply had started to run dry. The child would not accept other fluids and they were having trouble feeding him.
What happened next took the Manatee County couple by surprise.
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