SonicBirds is properly of the coolest ideas yet…an idea that provides artists with exposure. Artists signing up get the opportunity to be alerted of music promoters in need of some serious music talent. Heck, let the website itself tell you what it does:
Sonicbids is an online matchmaking site for bands and people [...]
February 28, 2008
Categories: exposure . Tags: music, sonicbirds . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Getting to know Kiersten
Youtube
Myspace
Official Website
Kiersten is an unsigned artist that has a voice to die for. Her covers and originals are catchy and makes you just want to sit back and chill. Rolling Stones magazine wrote about her cover of KT Tunstall’s Stoppin’ the Love in their October 2007 magazine, which [...]
February 23, 2008
Categories: Single . Tags: kiersten Holine, music, rolling stones, youtube . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
There has been requests by readers to feature video cuts by the Youtube community. Expression is shown through the vocal abilities of some of the artists on Youtube while others express themselves via video footage from movies or shows. So ontohollywood will also be accepting proposals for the best video cuts that expresses [...]
February 23, 2008
Categories: videos . Tags: londongirl27, video submission, youtube . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Getting to know TomtheSinger
Youtube
Youtube’s unsigned talent at its finest and all the way from Japan - TomtheSinger. Tom is a talented singer, piano player, and songwriter who sings both in English as well as Japanese.
February 23, 2008
Categories: Single . Tags: backstreetboys, sing, talent, tomthesinger, youtube . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Here’s the roster of the best artists of 2007 based on votes, nominations, and comments combined. It’s a mixture of the great talent found on Youtube.
The kiss of approval by the Youtubian community for music talent 2007 goes to (in no particular order):
MissCarolinexoxo: Raw, straight-up talent
Jenny0285: Youtube’s Jewel - sweet angelic voice
MattRach: [...]
February 18, 2008
Categories: exposure . Tags: amiestreet, animoto, carolinexoxo, davidchoi, deezer, mattrach, music, youtube . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Getting to know Amy Benjamin
Youtube
Amy Benjamin is a multi-talented Youtubian from Australia. Not only is she a singer/songwriter, she is also a make-up artist. Her music has a very angelic tune to it. One of her more popular songs is called “Need You,” a song she wrote for a friend [...]
February 18, 2008
Categories: Single . Tags: amy benjamin, music, youtube talent . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
There’s been a lot of inquiry as to how the Youtube Stars are selected. Besides nominations from the Youtube community, there are certain other star quality attributes we look for:
Leah Beabout:
The artist has a carefree persona, original, and I get the sense they already feel famous. They aren’t tailoring their craft for the [...]
February 18, 2008
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Getting to know Tara
Youtube
Myspace
Tara is a music talent from Oberlin, Ohio who has a voice that sounds like a young Whitney Houston. According to Tara’s MySpace, she “has worked with multi-platinum recording artists Juvenile, Young Buck and the late Soulja Slim, for whom she sang background vocals on their 2003 [...]
February 18, 2008
Categories: Single . Tags: music talent, myspace, tara, youtube . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Awhile back, I wrote about Deezer, a music site that lets you find any song and add it to a playlist where you can listen to the full track. Up pops a snazzy new engine called SongBird. It’s getting featured not because of its cool logo or spiffy t-shirts, but rather for its [...]
February 18, 2008
Categories: Websites . Tags: deezer, music, music 2.0, songbird, songbirdnest . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments
Getting to know Melinda Wong
Youtube
Myspace
I was browsing through the nominations to find someone doing a cover of Martina McBride’s “My Valentine”…for the whole Valentine spirit since it is, after all, the day of love. The search landed on 19-year-old Melinda Wong, aspiring recording artist from Malaysia. Listening to her [...]
February 15, 2008
Categories: Single . Tags: youtube, talent, martina mcbride, melinda wong . Author: michelle . Comments: No Comments