Sarah Hayley Orrantia born February 21 1994 known professionally as Hayley Orrantia is an American actress singer and songwriter She is best known for portraying Erica Goldberg on the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs She was a member of Lakoda Rayne a countrypop girl group assembled by Simon Cowell during the first season of The X Factor Career Orrantia began singing at the age of nine and began professionally training at the age of 12 She wrote her first song at 13 and by age 14 had recorded her first EP of cover songs That same year she began writing with songwriter Jamie Houston who at the time was best known for writing hits for the three of the Disney High School Musical movies Orrantia recorded the vocals to Houstons Magic of a Friend which was on Disneys Tinkerbell and The Lost Treasure soundtrack in 2010 Later that year Orrantia sang background vocals for Demi Lovato on Disneys Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam soundtrack and background vocals for Miley Cyrus on Disneys Hannah Montana Forever soundtrack Her first acting role was at age 15 on a Sprint commercial in 2011 She was cast in the independent film Cooper and the Castle Hills Gang which premiered at the Dallas International Film Festival In the summer of 2011 Orrantia auditioned for the first season of The X Factor Orrantia was selected from a YouTube video submission and received four yes votes from the judges during the live audition phase in Seattle Washington Although she originally auditioned as a solo artist during Hollywood Week she and three other female singers were put into a group for the rest of the auditions They were eliminated during the fifth week in the live shows Since 2013 Orrantia has played Erica Goldberg on the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs After casting Orrantia and learning of her singing talent series creator Adam F Goldberg has written several episodes where Erica sings and plans to continue to highlight her singing talent in future episodes In 2015 Orrantia filmed the movie Gods Not Dead 2 released on April 1 2016
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