Of course, it takes more than a good voice to succeed in music.
Ryan knows that all too well.
Her career has yet to really take off since winning the original season ofAGTat age 11 in 2006.
So what has she been up to since then?
Here’s a look at Ryan’s life after theAGTshine wore off.
“I didn’t really have a say on what went on my CD,” Ryan toldThe Scene.
“I had to record my whole CD in two weeks.
So it was crazy …
I didn’t feel like it was really me.”
It’s understandable that a major label would be hesitant to give her creative control.
She wasn’t even old enough to go see a PG-13 movie at the time.
She toldColosseum Mediashe made close to nothing off the album.
“I didn’t make anything off my first album, even after selling a couple hundred thousand.”
Kids can be so cruel
AfterAGTand her debut album, Ryan wanted to be normal again.
For her meant putting her music career on hold and going back to a normal school.
“I wish I would’ve stayed in music.
Everybody was like ignoring me.
I made no friends.
You don’t want to be friends with her.'
Meanwhile, I don’t think I’m cool at all.
I feel like a loser sitting at the lunch table alone.”
So much for normalcy.
She got the acting bug
Can you picture Ryan inHannah Montana?
“And when people see it, they believe it.
And I just think that’s the coolest thing ever.”
Unfortunately for Ryan, she hasn’t had many opportunities to be a totally different person.
In both the music video and film, she played a you guessed it singer.
She toldOdysseythat she doesn’t watch the show, except for a clip here and there.
Her reason: She isn’t much of a TV watcher.
But she did admit toOdysseythat she envies winners nowadays and the advantages they have.
“It is insane with the new age and social media.
“Back in 2006, the judges would say, ‘That was a great performance, the end.’
There was no connection back then.”
There doesn’t seem to be much of a connection between Ryan and the judges now either.
Ryan realized she couldn’t live without music and independently recorded the song that she had written years prior.
Next up was the music video.
But with no label behind her to foot the bill, Ryan turned toKickstarterfor help.
The goal was to raise $6,000 for the video, which had a projected budget of $9,000.
She ended up with $7,581 thanks to the donations.
Way to come through, Ryan fans.
What it doesn’t have are butterflies, sparkles, or flames.
That’s probably for the best.
Never mind that she was only 11 years old at the time.
She"glo’d up,” as one Twitter admirer put it, much to Ryan’s amusement.
“I found myself, and who I wanted to be,” she toldHollywood Life.
“I went out and got a tattoo and dyed my hair and got in trouble!”
Health scares derailed her comeback
There came a point for Ryan where it hurt to sing.
It got so bad that she went to the doctor to see what was wrong.
She toldHollywood Lifethat the problem was that one side of her vocal chords were paralyzed, which required surgery.
Then came surgery for the blood vessels on her vocal chords.
“I have had more setbacks than anyone I know of in this industry,” Bianca toldOdyssey.
“I just have really bad luck.
But you know, everything happens for a reason.
“All but the latter song had actually been written prior to 2017.
For Ryan, this new music had been a long time coming in more ways than one.
“That was put away for me when I turn 21,” she said.
“Some of it was used to run some of my businesses that I have.
Some was used for traveling.”
Ryan’s biggest purchase appears to bethe homeshe moved into in 2018.
