Local-Global Girl

By Renda Writer

Chances are that you've seen her before.  She's Chloe Dolandis, co-host of Friday Night SlimeTime on Nickelodeon and the team captain for the green team on Splat!, a live interactive game show also on Nickelodeon.  So how did this 20-year old from Boca Raton, Florida land herself on a major television network with a global reach?  She started locally, doing everything and anything to get noticed for the talented performer, singer, and event host that she is.  She's a local-global girl.

Not even the sky can claim to be a limit for a girl whose credentials in her community include having a day named after her.  Yes, January 13, 2004 was proclaimed to be "Chloe Dolandis Day" by Steve Abrams, the mayor of Boca Raton.  He granted her this honor after she took first place in the first ever Rising Star competition, a local version of American Idol. 

In asking Chloe the secret to her success as a busy local celebrity of sorts, she's quick to point out that all opportunities, even those that don't quite pan out, lead to other opportunities and other connections.  She is very much dialed in to how networking on a local level can bring about the global achievements that she shoots for. 

For example, while singing at a benefit event for world renowned tennis player, Andy Roddick, she ran into a man who claimed to have some music industry connections that could benefit her.  So she gave him a demo of some cover songs that she had done, and not long after the man passed it on to his connection in Nashville, who then passed it on to Steve Dorff in LA, the music producer and songwriter credited with writing the Kenny Rogers classic, "Through The Years," as well as hit songs for several other successful singers like Vanessa Williams and Celine Dion.  And now he's writing for Dolandis.  "No Tomorrow" and "Something Bigger than Me" are the two original adult contemporary songs that he helped pen for her and can be heard at www.myspace.com/chloedolandismusic. 

Chloe is the epitome of "up and coming," a perfect pick for a television network, music producer, or entertainment executive looking for that next fresh face with enough talent and charisma to carry a project to new levels.  Having sung the National Anthem for the Florida Marlins, the Miami Heat, and the Florida Panthers, as well singing in her own one-woman show at the swanky South Beach night club Karma, Chloe is certainly no stranger to the stage or the spotlight. 

She's so energetic and alive that it's hard to even imagine her mouth in the shape of a frown.  Her ambitions include continuing to stay active on the local level and parlaying her success in that arena into a position as a global figure capable of implementing real social change.  For that, she looks up to celebrities such as Bono from U2 and Angelina Jolie.  A humanitarian at heart who loves doing charity and volunteer work, she says that it's only a matter of time before she can make a global mark and spread her good vibes to the rest of the world.

Chloe doesn't turn down many opportunities to stay active and boost her exposure.  She even had a chance to sing a song to open up for Miami rapper Pitbull after having won "Florida Atlantic University Idol," a talent competition at her alma mater. 

She's local.  She's global.  She's Chloe.  And she's someone you'll be seeing and hearing a lot more of in the very near future.  She's a local-global girl.

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*Published in the November/December 2005 issue of Us Artists Magazine.