DISCOVERED IN STRANGE AND UNUSUAL WAYS . . .

MANDY MOORE (37)

A well-connected delivery man heard 13-year-old Mandy cutting jingles in a small recording studio in Orlando, Florida. “I kept telling the people at the studio that Mandy was a star. They weren’t paying me attention,” Victor Cade recalls proudly. Victor sent tapes and pictures of Mandy to his friend Dave McPherson, a record executive who’d signed the Backstreet Boys.

Dave eventually flew to Orlando to meet Mandy and later signed her. The singer has gone on to become a successful actress and was nominated