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Kristine Weitz came to Las Vegas in 1984 from her hometown of Pasco, Wash. She saw Las Vegas as a place where she could perform her dance music and get her degree.
Since then, she obtained her degree at UNLV, recorded an album with RCA and has had a nine-year gig at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Weitz manages and produces her own show. She performs nightly (except Thursday) with her band The Sting.
Today, the 6-feet-tall, 33-year-old Weitz is eight months pregnant.
She recently took time off from performing -- not managing, however, and says she will begin performing again three weeks after her baby is born.
She sat down with Sherri Cruz of the Las Vegas Business Press to talk about the future of her show, Vegas entertainment and working mother issues.
Is there anything unique to being an artist in Las Vegas?
Totally. It's a fast moving place. It makes you become more visual. You have to be more animated. You have to be more alive. You are pushed to be bigger than life because you are competing against all this stuff. I think it's really important, it pushes you. That's why when I go out on track shows, when I go perform everybody is like 'my God, where did you learn to perform like that.' Well, you try waking up at 5:00 a.m. in the morning in the casino and you are competing against 900 slot machines and 500 games, the topless bar down the street -- you have to rehearse.
How often do you rehearse?
Twice a week, no matter what. We're in here Tuesday and Wednesdays and I'm in the recording studio probably three days a week.
Las Vegas is being sold as the entertainment capital of the world. Are we?
I think we are finally going to start living up to that. Finally this year, I see innovation coming. I see people getting excited about things. I see shows like MadHattan coming in.
So what, it's kind of bizarre, it's weird. It's taking a shot. It's creative, people are singing, there's live people on the stage doing stuff. Any of that's great. It seems like people are more willing to take a shot at creating excitement. What the...