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| Name                = Alexis
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| Background          = solo_singer
| Birth_name          =Alexis Ebert<ref name=RegGuard2004>{{Cite news  | last = Baker  | first = Mark  | author-link =  | last2 =  | first2 =  | author2-link =  | title = Rising teen music star plays Eugene  | newspaper = [[The Register-Guard]]  | pages =  | date = 2004-08-13  | url = http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rising+teen+music+star+plays+Eugene.(Entertainment)(Alexis,+from...-a0121169631  | postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref>
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| birth_place         = [[Albany, Oregon|Albany]], [[Oregon]], [[USA]]
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| Instrument          = Vocals, guitar, piano<ref name=Lehninginterview>{{cite web  | last =  | first = Songbrokers.com  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title = Kyle Lehning Interview  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url = http://business.songstuff.com/articles.php?sub_page=4&selected=4  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate = 2007-07-15 }}</ref>
| Genre               = Country pop
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| URL                 = http://www.myspace.com/alexis
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'''Alexis''' (full name '''Alexis Ebert''') is an [[Americans|American]] [[country music|country]] [[pop music|pop]]/[[rock music|rock]] [[singer]] from [[Albany, Oregon|Albany]], [[Oregon]]. She is best known for "The Real Me". It is a song on the [[soundtrack]] for the 2004 [[movie]] ''[[Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen]]''. She has opened for more well known singers including [[Keith Urban]], [[Tracy Byrd]] and [[Sawyer Brown]].<ref name=AlexisMyspace>{{cite web  | last =  | first =   | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title = Official Myspace Biography for Alexis  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url = http://www.myspace.com/Alexis  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate = 2007-07-15 }}</ref>

==Career==
Alexis has been [[performance|performing]] since she was six years old. She wrote her first song, titled "Forever," in 1996.  Her mother, Cheryl Ebert, helped her write it. At age eight, she sang for [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] at a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] fundraiser in Oregon.<ref name=pdfbio>{{cite web  | last =  | first =   | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title = Alexis Biography  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url = http://tbvfair.com/pdfs/2007/BLACKBIOFORALEXIS.pdf  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate = 2007-07-15 }}</ref>

Her most well-known song, "The Real Me", was written for [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney's]] ''[[The Lizzie McGuire Movie]]''. When the recording was not finished in time for the movie, Disney chose to keep the song so they could use it in another movie in the future. They chose to use it in ''Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen'' which starred [[Lindsay Lohan]].<ref name=MarkYlen_showtime>{{Cite news  | last = Ylen  | first = Mark  | title = Show time  | newspaper = [[Albany Democrat-Herald]] | date = 2004-02-12  | url = http://democratherald.com/articles/2004/02/12/people/people01.txt }}</ref>

Alexis continues to write new music and performs over 100 shows a year.<ref name="AlexisMyspace"/><ref name="pdfbio"/>

==Stage name==
Alexis chose to not user her [[surname]] for [[performance|performing]] for two reasons. When she began performing at such a young age, her parents were worried about [[privacy]] problems that could be caused by using her last name. Since then, however, Alexis has not changed her stage name to include her surname because she likes just having one name. She compares it to [[icon]]s such as [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] and [[Cher]].<ref name="RegGuard2004" />

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