Celebrities To Watch In 2009
2009 is going to be another exciting year for our celebrity friends, and there are many very talented potential stars waiting in the wings, I would say Lady Gaga is the name to look out for. America’s been looking for an answer to our quirky pop females (Lily Allen, Kate Nash etc…) for a while and they may well have found one in the shape of this 22-year-old New Yorker. Not only does she look and sound different but the likes of Britney Spears and Pussycat Dolls have already expressed a interest in collaboration with the artist, she also went to the same school as Paris Hilton, which surely can’t hurt.
As mentioned in the intro to this article, Lady Gaga has the potential to be massive in 2009. Born Joanne Stefani Germanotta, she combines the street savvy of young Madonna with a far greater innate musical talent, along with a unique sense of style and a mixture of music genre’s. One to watch indeed.
Britain has been blessed with a steady stream of innovative female artists over the years and Little Boots (aka Victoria Hesketh) is as interesting as any of them. If you look on YouTube, you’ll find a clip of her in her small, cluttered bedroom, surrounded by shelves of CDs and knick-knacks. Dressed in denim shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt, her dyed blond hair scrunched back from her face, she is hemmed in by two keyboards, a computer screen and a Stylophone, one of those tiny toy music machines that Rolf Harris once advertised on TV at Christmas.
The unique talents of VV Brown are refreshingly honest words of her official biography, her music is “dramatic, charismatic and, frequently, as mad as a box of frogs.” But perhaps the best description comes from the lady herself – she calls it “doowop soul”.
Given that he’s already had an album out, Bryn Christopher isn’t strictly speaking a newcomer his sublime soul voice will reach more people in the coming year. Think David McAlmont crossed with Otis Redding.
Irish soul-pop singer Laura Izibor has already performed with Al Green, been asked to support Aretha Franklin, and had a track featured on Grey’s Anatomy – all before she’s released a note of music. She must be doing something right.
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