Singer leads crowd of new Web stars on YouTube
On Monday, Naomi, who studied classical voice at the University of Michigan and has been writing songs for seven years, was among the winners of the first YouTube Video awards, picking up the honor best music video with “Say It’s Possible” which soon will be released as her first single
Other winners included OKGo, who won the title most creative with a video called “Here it Goes Again,” which has four men in the group dancing on treadmills. Digitalfilmmaker’s “Ask a Ninja” won the award for best series.
But Naomi’s story of Web fame reads like an old Hollywood yarn that now seems to happen rapidly on lightning-fast community sites on the Web.
A year ago Naomi was struggling to carve out a career as a musician when she decided to try her luck on a new online site — YouTube — where users can post their own videos.
Her timing was impeccable. As YouTube’s audience soared after its February 2006 launch, so did Naomi’s following and within months U.S. and British record labels were chasing her.
Los Angeles-based Naomi, who signed with Island Records in London in December, is stunned by her fast-track to fame. She is moving to London, and her first album is due in June.
“I was really tired of going out on the road. It was grueling. Sometimes I would drive for seven or eight hours and end up playing for 20 people,” Naomi told Reuters.
“I decided I was not going to go out on the road again but film nightly concerts from my apartment,” she added.
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Source: News.Yahoo.com
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