The Phoenix show
To provide financial support and rent money, Heart and John depended on donations; they sent their five children to play music out on the streets, and that’s how they became a strange family music group – what would eventually lead all five children to find their way into the show business. They also participated in talent contests.
That’s how the family had made their salary, until Heart finally landed a job as a secretary for an NBC casting agency. Their mother’s job is what eventually allowed the five siblings to break their way into the entertainment industry: a leading children’s agent, Iris Burton, was the one who discovered the talented children and got them their first acting roles in commercials and occasional T.V. appearances.