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A Connecticut singer who was a top ten winner on American Idol has come out with a new children's book. Christina Cewe joins News 12’s Gwen Edwards to discuss the book and the inspiration behind it.  

A Connecticut singer who was a top ten winner on American Idol has come out with a new children's book. 

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Our Lives: American Idol top 10 winner writes children’s book

Welcome to our lives. I'm Gwen Edwards, a Connecticut singer who was a top 10 winner on american idol is now out with a new Children's book. She joins me now, Christina C we thank you so much for being a guest. Thank you for having me when I appreciate it. You have decided to kind of pivot a little in your career. I was really looking for a career that would allow me to spend a lot lot of time with my growing family as well as stimulate my mind and allow me to grow a career where I can find a good work life balance and I was lucky enough to get into the field technology field and I flourished in it. I've enjoyed it and I'm encouraging women and to truly, you know, look at technology as a real place for for career development. Talk about the book, I believe me, do you believe in you this? I actually wrote for my eldest child who is about to turn 17 and I wrote it 14 years ago when he was just starting out, right, when he was trying to find himself and you're starting like peewee sports and encouraging him to build confidence and it was something my parents and my grandparents always told me I'm first generation american, my family's from Trinidad and it was always like we can do anything. You put your mind to. You were so fortunate to have a very tight knit family and one of the things that your family did was stress education. There's no choice but studying being an immigrant and coming from the country of Trinidad education was truly stressed there. It was imperative that in order to make something of yourself in this country, you had to focus on your books like studies came first and if you put in the work you're investing in yourself. Exactly. And that's the best investment. Talk about your time on american idol. Oh my gosh, I can't even believe it's 20 years ago. There's not an executive that I deal with that. I fear as much as we feared Simon cowell to be honest, like you know, standing on live tv, you're you're just so vulnerable for my situation particular. I was sick during the show. So having to present myself in a not feeling well. Week after week was very difficult and I learned so much about the depth of my will. Well you carried yourself well for someone who was frightened out of their wits and a little bit sick. It's not always going to go the way you want it to go, but it goes the way it's supposed to go. Give us an idea of the reaction to the book. A lot of kids love it. You can actually on the website for the book. It's I believe in me. Do you dot com Christina. See we we thank you so much for your time and for sharing your story. Thank you so much and we want to thank you for watching our lives and just a reminder if you have a group organization event, you would like to promote, contact me. My email address is G. T. Edwards at News 12 dot com. For Our Lives. I'm Gwen Edwards.

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