Isabela Merced revealed she would copy Christina Aguilera‘s singing when she was younger.

The 19-year-old singer and actress took part in the “8 Bit Melody Challenge” with Seventeen, and when Christina‘s “Genie In A Bottle” was one of the tunes, she opened up about how she learned to sing through it.

“Honestly, Christina taught me how to sing. I would just like copy everything she did in that song, every riff, every inflection,” Isabela said. “Everything that she did, all the vibrato too, I matched it perfectly, and I would work at that. I was like six when I started doing that and that basically, I think, was the reason I sing.”

Earlier this summer, Isabela dropped her debut EP The Better Half of Me, which she said was born out of quarantine. Listen now!