They have a strong sense of purpose, and their record label, Keith says, "has let the kids do their thing — the way they dress, their music, photographs ..." BMG spent $25,000 on photos of the group in Central Park for their debut CD. The Browns rejected them as being too formal.

"The kids didn't look like themselves," Lisa says. "They looked like somebody else's kids who resembled them." BMG president Gilbert Heatherwick listened to their concerns and told them, "You've got a point. The first CD is how you represent yourselves." The Browns spent $1,000 to hire their own photographer, Utah's Debra McFarland, for the photos that decorated their first CD.

"We didn't want to be difficult," Desirae says. "But we almost looked too pretty. We're just normal kids."

Normal kids who performed in front of 65,000 people in the Rose Bowl for the 2006 Fourth of July celebration and for 21,000 in the LDS Church's Conference Center for the 95th birthday celebration for the church's late president, Gordon B. Hinckley. Normal kids who cut CDs and travel all over the world.

"It's been one of those rare times when all the stars lined up," Diamond says.

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