I have a song stuck in my head. It's a cover of Rihanna's song Umbrella by Marie Digby. Digby is a 25-year old half-Irish, half-Japanese acoustic guitarist/singer from LA. She is (or was? -- these numbers are moving targets) also the #2 YouTube singer celeb (after English/Portugese musician Mia Rose). If I have the story right, she recorded this song herself, uploaded on YouTube, and it totally went viral, ending up on MTV's The Hills, on iTunes, and leading to the release of her first album in April.
I spent some time surfing her YouTube channel last week. You can listen to a lot of her songs there, and you can also check out numerous videos of her talking to the camera about how excited she is about her accomplishments and expressing gratitude to her fans. Some of her mannerisms are very Japanese (like how she thanks the fans profusely) and it's kinda cute.
She's actually performing in San Francisco today, at the Alice concert in Golden Gate Park. Ooh I'd love to go but it's gonna be so crowded!
I like how she breaks a word into syllables to make a song out of it.
Posted by: Dragonfang18 | June 22, 2008 at 06:14 PM