Vickie Lynn Natale was a winner on the CBS's version of the Star Search television programme in 2003. Vickie's musical stylings are infused with contemporary R&B and pop, however, funk, jazz, and blues flow just as naturally from her voice. Vickie also writes, arrangers, composes, and produces her own music. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in a single parent home. Vickie literally sang her way through school. "We did not have money for rent, let alone music lessons". She received her first "musical schooling" from listening to artists like Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Early in 2002, while performing at the Sugar Bar, Vickie was approached by a CBS Star Search casting director and invited to appear on the show. She became the winner of the 2003 Star Search Adult Competition. Vickie was invited back to Star Search in 2004 to compete in its Winner's Circle Competition, a format that had previous Star Search stand-outs challenged weekly by new contestants who set out to knock the previous winners out of the "Winner Circle".