iPhone-playing girl gets record deal
Remember applegirl002, the Korean girl who sang a song accompanied by her iPhone apps a while back? Turns out she's gone pro -- after 4.2 million views of her clip across the web, a South Korean record label has reportedly inked a deal to record her own songs and make some more professional videos. She's classically trained, and studied music at a small college near her home, but it's her iPhone playing and singing that have catapulted her to virtual stardom.
She's big in England, apparently -- over there, she's won a poll against Lady Gaga to see who Apple could pick up as the star of their next campaign. That might not happen (lately, Apple products have been starring in their own commercials), but the fact that she's got a chance to make music professionally after being seen so much on YouTube is pretty cool. Here's hoping she sticks with her roots and brings all of the iPhones into the recording studio. I'd love to hear a record made completely with apps from the App Store.
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She's amazing, she would storm the UK talent shows.
Whilst beyonce is probably her idol, I bet she couldn't even tell you what cords & strings are necessary to create her own song "irreplaceable", heheh!
The article said she studied music, so I'm thinking she probably can. Not so hard to learn guitar you know.
June 14 2010 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI mean't Beyonce ;-)
June 14 2010 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy is the "korean" girl speaking Japanese?
June 14 2010 at 2:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat apps did she use for that?
June 14 2010 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI love when viral videos call out talented people.
No autotune needed! She's good!
and a sweety too!
I know this isn't related to Apple at all but I want to see that 6th grader who did a cover of Lady Gaga's Paparazzi at a talent show and who has currently has more views on youtube than the Lady Gaga's original version get a deal some time.
Sorry for the being off topic like that.
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