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Kylee Saunders is the real life Hannah Montana, except not anymore

kylee-saunders.jpgKylee Saunders is your typical Arizona teenager. Or at least she used to be.

The 16-year old high school junior lives a double life reminiscent of Miley Cyrus' famed Disney character, Hannah Montana. By week, she's a normal student, but on four day weekends Saunders travels with her mother to Japan, where she is a bona fide super star.

"It's amazing cause I get to have two separate lives I guess you could say," She says in an appearance on "Today." "Whenever I go to school in Arizona I can just be normal and hang out with friends and family, and I have singing in another country -- in Japan -- which I love, so it's really awesome."

Awesome indeed, except for the fact that she just appeared on national television in the U.S. So that whole "Hannah Montana" schtick? Looks like it's officially up. Whoops.

Girlfriend knows just what she's doing, though. This is a perfect launching point for a pop tart career stateside -- exactly what she's aiming for.

"That would be a dream come true," she says of expanding her career to the U.S. "I would love to be able to not have to go to Japan all the time. I'd be able to do Japan and the States, that'd be awesome." A different kind of awesome from the former, we presume.

She's cute, talented and fluent in both English and Japanese -- Disney execs are bound to be falling all over themselves trying to grab a piece of this girl. Let the madness begin.



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She can actually tell her friends "I'm a legend in Japan" and it would make sense.

She's not exactly a pop STAR... check out her chart positions, nothing impressive there.

screw disney. what good have they done for their previous "stars." they turned em into black holes they did!

SLQ - remind us where YOU are on the charts again, please.

they didn't ask how her music got to japan?

How did her music get to japan?

I don't konw
she no famous

How you ask? It's really easy to get into the entertainment industry in Japan. She's good, but U.S. media is kind of exaggerating the situation a bit.

she's more in the up-and-maybe-coming league, most people don't know her at all. Definitely not a huge star YET.

she's not that popular in Japan

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