Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10, 2004) is an
American child singer and
actress born in
Michigan, and raised in
Ashburn,
Virginia. In 2008, at the age of 4, she appeared on the third season of
America's Got Talent and for her audition sang "
Somewhere Out There". She advanced through four rounds of competition and one was of the final ten contestants, the youngest person to ever reach that level. Maher has since appeared live at The Great Kids Expo in
Chantilly, Virginia, on October 25, 2008, a live broadcast of the 2008 lighting of the
National Christmas Tree, on December 4, 2008, attended by President
George W. Bush and over 7,000 guests, and the 2009
Cherry Blossom Festival on April 11, 2009. On October 3, 2009, Maher was the opening act of The Addi and Cassi Hempel Fund benefit. Maher has appeared in a
Harris Teeter commercial airing during December 2008. She was also selected by Compassion International as its first ever Child Ambassador, visited children in El Salvador with Compassion, got to meet her sponsored child, and shot a music video to her title song "You Were Meant to Be."