Getting to know Matt
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It’s always a pleasure to see a Youtube singer get featured on Youtube but today’s a treat.  Youtube featured a singer singing a song his friends wrote.  The song is sang by Matthew Luke Sandovel who lists his influences as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Tori Amos.

As any great artist knows, to be like the Star, you’ve got to dress, live, and sing like those you admire. Dizzler is a website that allows you to search for your favorite music. It then allows you to download the ringtone. Unfortunately, downloading the ringtone is not free and will cost $9.99 USD a month for unlimited downloads. Either way, if you can’t find a song you’d like to listen to on Deezer, you can search for it on Dizzler.

Getting to know AngelicaV1
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It’s hard to believe that Angelica Vasiclov is unsigned. With a voice that can move mountains, Angelica has been singing since the age of 6. This triple-threat talent can not only sing, she also plays the piano and writes her own music. From Romania, Angelica is currently attending the Musical University of Bucharst. Keep your eyes on her, she’s going to be huge!

Ikea The Kitchens Rhythm Contest as portrayed in this really annoying video that makes me want to pull my hair out

First Place Prize: All you can grab goodies at Ikea
Second Place Prize: Ikea Gift Cards

And please, for the sake of your listeners’ ears and sanity, please make it sound better than the commercial above.

This is Samuel “Mo’ Beat Blues” Lozada from Portage, IN. The 56 year old former truck driver, is now a “high-energy” harmonica player and blues singer and currently performs at 65 nursing homes in the MidWest. In this clip he goes off on the solo, and the harmonica becomes such an exhilirating sound. He recently tried out for “America’s Got Talent” to hopefully fulfill his dream of gaining enough exposure and money to purchase a recreational vehicle and travel around the country to perform at even more nursing homes. He was beat out by a miniature pony and a guy throwing sticks!

“I didn’t make it. I’ll stay here, play at the nursing homes and make them happy. I just love to bring them that joy for one hour,” he said. Sam has an engaging smile, a welcoming aura about him and an obvious big heart to match his pipes. Samuel Lozada is what ontohollywood.com is all about…The love. It just don’t get Mo’ better than that.

Colgate-Palmotive: Are you Music’s Next Fresh Sound?
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Entry Timeline: March 19, 2008 - April 14, 2008

So many singing competitions, so little time! From March 19, 2008 until April 14, 2008 you can enter a new online talent search competition hosted by Colgate-Palmotive (yes, the makers of toothpaste). You must submit a track from 15 contemporary songs listed on their website in order to qualify. There is a list of songs from different Genres you may choose from ranging from Country, Rock, Pop, Latin, and R&B. The judges of the competition are: Bryan-Michael Cox (Grammy Producer), Tito El Bambino (Recording artist), and Danyel Smith (Editor, Vibe Magazine)

What are you waiting for? Go enter now!!!

P.S. Sorry for the delayed notice I’m a tad behind in my e-mail

Getting t know Thia Megia
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Thia Megia has a voice that made my jaw dropped once I heard her. I had to play her video twice to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating…but I wasn’t the only one at awe. Christine, a dear-friend visiting from New York who writes for Seventeen magazine asked me “Oh, is that Yael Naim? I love her.” Little did she know it was coming from 13-year old Thia Megia. You might recognize her from a video featuring one of other talented singers, Jessica Sanchez.

We’ll just let you read what her nominator has to say about her:

Thia Megia had just turned thirteen with singing and performing experience since the age of six. He first major acccomplishment was singing the National Anthem solo for the San Francisco NFL 49ers at the age of ten in front of 70,000 people. She was then invited to sing the Anthem and other half-time performances for Stanford University sport venues including the opening of the new Stanford stadium of 50,000 thousand people.

Thia has appeared as a guest singer on channel KRON 4’s “The World According to Gary” with Mr. Gary Radnich at age eleven. Later that yearof 2007, she volunteered to sing for nursing homes and the American Cancer Society. Thia had also won both titles as the “Saratoga Idol” and “San Jose Idol”.

12 year old Thia had sung more than twice for the San Francisco Major League Giants, also for Barry Bonds Day honoring the homerun record of Mr. Barry Bonds.

Thia has recently appeared as the “Apollo Kid Star of Tomorrow” on the late night “Showtime at the Apollo” in Harlem, New York.

It has been a “bee-zy” few weeks going through e-mail from PR Firms, Management Companies, Record Companies etc asking for more information about artists. We try to put as much information about the unsigned artist as we can find out. If they do not respond to your inquiry, then they may not be interested.

On another note, we have been receiving questions as to why we do not feature Bebo Artists. By all means, we feature any unsigned artist from any social networking site. The catch is - you’ll need to have a video on Youtube as our content management system allows us easy ways to link to Youtube videos.

And finally, congratulations to two of our featured artists who were able to make contact with excellent an management firm and label. We’ll reveal who these artists are when they release their upcoming music video.

Cool News You Can Use
* We haven’t finished listing all of the artists names who we featured in our Hall of Fame

* Lots of singing competitions for unsigned artists to show off their talent and get noticed by major record companies. We will be posting information about this on OTH.

InDaba Music is an online community of international musicians. The site states its purpose as “a place for musicians to find one another, create and remix music, and showcase their work.” InDaba has a great community of artists participating to help one another improve their mixes. Each remix session has an area that displays “Similar Sessions” i.e. other people’s mixes. Plenty of room for aspiring singers to lend their vocals to ballads in dear need of a great singer. Vocalists may upload their vocals i.e. (auditions) to the ballad creator via a “studio” provided by InDaba. Currently, the site contains mostly trance, rock, and acoustic jazz.

Using the “Studio” isn’t intuitive for newbies. A step-by-step screen or video demo would surely help those who are interested but have never mixed music before.

Getting to know Ashly
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Ashly Dixon is a singing sensation from San Antonio, Texas with a voice made to challenge the likes of Whitney Houston. She has a list of achievement under her belts ranging from community service to opening for Maya Angelou. Ashly describes her style as Country, R&B, and Gospel. With a will to succeed and a voice to move mountains, we’re sure to see Ms. Dixon high in the charts.

Sources have revealed that she was just signed onto a recording contract in January 2008. Ashly is proof of the power of perseverance, believing in yourself, and the power of having dedicated fans on the Internet!