Kelly Fleming Smith

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Kelly Fleming Smith graduated from BYU in 2001 with a BA in Communications. In 2008, BYU Magazine printed a reminiscence of one of Smith's favorite experiences at BYU.

A group of freshman, a karaoke machine, and a free room at the Heritage Halls central building—that’s all we needed for entertainment one Friday night my first year at BYU. Since we didn’t have karaoke music, we brought our own CDs to sing to our favorites. The karaoke machine’s microphone didn’t work, so we borrowed a mike from the Heritage Halls office.

On one of my solo performances, I noticed a couple of my roommates leave the room for a few seconds and come back in with big mischievous grins. When the song was over, I asked what was so funny. “We’ll show you—just wait,” they said. As the next boy got up to sing, my roommates discreetly led me out the door and down the hall to the next room. As I entered, I heard the unaccompanied voice of the boy singing, bellowing loudly through the room. Here, we heard just the raw—and in my case I’m sure not very melodious—voice through the speakers. We then revealed our secret to the group. We had a good laugh and continued to sing, taking turns to go to the next door room to see who really had a chance to make it big in the music business!

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