Hollywood actress Hayden Panettiere was just six years old when she walked into now-Newcastle lord mayor Gavin Morris' studio and belted out Mariah Carey's song Hero.
It was the early 1990s and Cr Morris and his former wife Valerie, a professional opera singer, were unearthing new jingle-singing stars with their talent management company Val's Artist Management in New York, now known as Vamnation.
