Sharni Vinson

Sharni was born and raised in NSW (Australia) in the Cronulla suburb on Sydney's south coast. As a teenager She competed on an National Level for swimming and held four State records during her high school. Sharni began singing, dancing and acting as an infant, which made her the third generation in her family who performed. Sharni's mom was an actor in musical theatre and her grandmother, the country's youngest ballerina of 1945 was offered an opportunity to study at the Borovansky Ballet Company. At the age of 12 Sharni enrolled as a student at the Brent Street School of Performing Arts in Sydney, where she trained throughout the various dance forms throughout the following 10 years. Sharni had just graduated from high school when she was 17 years old, was signed to Roadshow Music Australia to be a member of "Foxfire IV", an all-girl pop group. Their first single, "Roses", reached at the 50th spot on Australia's ARIA chart.