Emma Harbeck says, ‘Everyone is beautiful’

When Emma Harbeck competed this past weekend for the Miss New York title in the Miss America competition, she sang the song “Reflection” from the ​​1998 Disney film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan.

Mulan spares her grandfather by disguising herself as a boy so she can become a warrior in his stead.

“Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I’ve tried,” Harbeck sang to the Miss America judges in Peekskill. “When will my reflection show who I am inside?”

“I think the whole point of the song is a girl talking about how she feels like she can’t be herself because she’s trying to please other people,” says Harbeck in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “And I think … that as girls in the organization, we’re obviously teens and we’re growing and we’re learning … I really wanted to have a piece that myself and other girls could relate to, so that’s why I chose that song.”

Harbeck, 17, is a Guilderland High School junior and Miss Capital Region Outstanding Teen. She has a passion for singing, she says, and sings in both the concert choir and the chamber choir at her school. She also played the part of Clarissa in the school musical last year, “Little Women.”

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