Biography

Sydney Harrison graduated in December 2024 from The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology with an art history minor. She began her journey at university as a Drawing and Painting Major then after some soul searching, she changed to a Music BA with an emphasis on the voice. Within the School of Music, she was a two-year voice student and member of the alto and soprano section in the University Treble Chorus choir. After discovering that she was not cut out for the world of music, she changed her major a second time at the end of her sophomore year and could not be happier. Along with her studies, Harrison was also a Luckyday scholar, which is a scholarship founded on being an active servant leader. Throughout her university journey, Harrison developed generalized anxiety and moderate depression and has been learning how to heal her mental health struggles. This journey, along with her studies in sociology, led her to long to be an art therapist. Harrison's goal in life is to use her artistic and musical abilities to aid in the growth of others' spiritual and mental well-being.

Harrison is from Meridian, Mississippi, and she grew up getting involved with the performing and visual arts. After starting her education at a private Christian school, she attended Southeast Lauderdale from second to tenth grade. In fifth grade, she joined the school’s band, directed by Scott Kratzer, as a flute player, continued playing for the next six years, and attained the leadership role of Chaplain during her third year in the varsity band. At Meridian Community College, she played in the 2018 (6th chair) and 2019 (2nd chair) high school Honor Band, directed by Jon Romero, and, under the direction of Todd Brand, she performed in the LCSD plays The Wizard of Oz (2018), visiting witch #1, and Peter Pan (2019), twin #1. For the past fourteen years, Harrison has been an active member of First Baptist Meridian and its choirs. Under the direction of David Bishop, she was a part of the youth choir from 2015-2021 and joined the sanctuary choir in 2018 as its youngest member for six years. Along with traveling the states on choir tours with the youth choir, she has also traveled with the sanctuary choir to London, England for the 2019 Vox Anima London concert to sing Jubilate!, composed by Dan Forrest and conducted by Jamie Meaders. For her junior and senior year of high school, Harrison attended the Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, Mississippi to study the visual arts. Along with being Beta Club vice president, the Student Government Association’s senior visual representative, and an arts ambassador during her senior year at MSA, she also led a student ensemble club and was a part of Total Praize, a student-led gospel choir. She graduated from Mississippi School of the Arts in the spring of 2021 as valedictorian of her class. In the summer of 2022, she went on a two-month-long mission trip to Worcester, Massachusetts to intern with The Church on Seven Hills, where she was able to experience different cultures and spread the Gospel to people of all ages. In the summer of 2024, Harrison went to Normandy, France to sing in Vox Animal London's 2024 concert: Commemorating D-Day: 80 Years On, which was directed by Mark Nabholz and James Meaders.