As her touring and recording schedule demanded more of her time, Moore withdrew from Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando and opted for a tutor/correspondence.

Her first tour was with the Backstreet Boys. At 15, her first record 'So Real' was released. Moore worked on cutting a demo and shortly thereafter signed a record deal with Sony 550 Music. He happened to know someone at Sony as well. At the ripe age of fourteen, while she was recording in a studio in Orlando, a Fed-Ex worker who happened to be passing through heard her and was interested in her talent. As a child, she performed the National Anthem at several athletic events around her hometown of Orlando, Florida, and became known as the 'National Anthem girl'. After seeing the musical 'Oklahoma!', she decided that she wanted to pursue a career in singing. She has Russian Jewish (from her maternal grandfather), English, Scottish, and Irish, ancestry. During her childhood, her family moved to Orlando, Florida, where she was raised. Amanda Leigh Moore was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 10, 1984, to Stacy (Friedman), a former news reporter, and Don Moore, an airline pilot.

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