subject: Branchburg's Marie Hsiao is a worldwide Web sensation [print this page] Hsiao's solo-performance musical videos, which she films in various spots around the Hsiao home, have been viewed 2.7 million times on YouTube. She also has more than 15,000 fans signed up as subscribers to her YouTube channel at
"I'd like to take it further and play to bigger audiences, hopefully someday,'' Marie
said. "I don't need to be famous, but that would be cool as long as people like my music. It would be cool nfl jerseyif people listen and enjoy and appreciate it; that's what I want.''
In a way, fame is already here. Marie's fans are taken by the unadulterated beauty of her high alto voice, mature phrasing and ability to get to the essence of a song.
"I think your music is absolutely amazing,'' posted Shweta1509 from Singapore. "I am in love with your voice, and the way you make every song your own is phenomenal.''
Marie has garnered this world-wide attention without management or any of the usual trappings of the show mlb jerseys business industry.
"I'm speechless,'' said Andy Gesner, owner of Hip Video Promo in South River, which has promoted videos for numerous acts from Pearl Jam to Of Montreal. "Her voice, her pitch, her bashful demeanor; she's a young great artist. She can forgo the whole "American Idol' morass.''
Gesner noted an interesting trend about her Web views.
"She has more than 700,000 views for her cover of Imogen Heap's 'Hide and Seek,''' Gesner said. "The original has like 900,000. That's almost as many as the original.''
Stan Andrucyk of the Keyport-based AM nfl jersey Productions noted that careers -- including Justin Bieber's -- are now beginning on the Internet.
"It works; it's new and people have to learn how to rely on it more,'' said Andrucyk,
whose company books major artists, including Tom Jones and Willie Nelson, in multiple venues on the East Coast, including the State Theatre in New Brunswick, the Community Theatre in Morristown and the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.
Branchburg's Marie Hsiao is a worldwide Web sensation
