News: Antony Bruno has written an article featuring Esmee Denters, the 18-year-old YouTube singing sensation. It is feutured in this week’s Billboard magazine, with Esmee partially on the cover. It’s also published online for Reuters. The article, titled “YouTube stars don’t always welcome record deals, describes how U.S. record labels have been pursuing Esmee — basically like a pack of high school boys pursuing the prom queen — to sign her to a record label. You can find all of Esmee’s YouTube videos here. Atlantic Records called a local hotel in the small Dutch village where Esmee lives and had the hotel rep track down every single Denters in the phone book. Atlantic Records then called each one of the listings until the employee got Esmee’s surprised mother. According to the article, “Denters has since traveled to the United States and met a veritable who’s who of the music industry’s leading executives, from Jason Flom to Antonio “L.A.” Reid to Tommy Motolla. She has recorded demo tracks with Kelly Rowland and is fielding TV deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment.”
But, so far, Esmee wants to stay on her own. “We may decide not to get together with a label. We may try new stuff. I’ve already accomplished so much on my own, we’d like to see what we can do with that.”
March 12, 2007 at 2:17 am |
OMG, I’ve loved this girl since the moment I heard her. I’m so glad things are starting to roll. She definitely is a serious talent.
You know, for me youtube has been all about LisaNova and Esmee Denters … LisaNova (Lisa Donovan) has just gotten a gig on Mad TV, so now I’m just waiting for our little Dutch phenom to get signed by a big label. Yeah, she’ll do some stuff on her own, but eventually one of the major labels will have her signing a multi-million dollar contract with them. Anyway, just so glad things are beginning to happen for her.