Esmée Denters

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Esmée Denters
Birth name	Esmée Denters
Born	September 28, 1988 (1988-09-28) (age 19)
Origin	The Netherlands
Genre(s)	Pop, Dance-pop, Urban contemporary, Adult contemporary
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Keyboard
Years active	2006–present
Label(s)	Tennman/Interscope
Associated acts	Justin Timberlake, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Rowland
Website	www.esmeeworld.com

Esmée Denters (born September 28, 1988 in Oosterbeek) is a Dutch singer.

Denters was first noticed by Ari Goldstein on YouTube in August 2006 for amateur videos of her singing cover versions of popular songs. By early June 2007, the then 18 year old had been signed as the first artist on the new Tennman Records label headed by singer Justin Timberlake. At the same time, Tennman Records announced that she would be opening for Timberlake at six venues during his 2007 European tour,^[1] making Denters the first amateur singer in history to go directly from a personal YouTube posting to commercially performing on a major stage.

Contents 1 Background 2 Discography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Background

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Denters started her singing career as a self-taught Internet performer. Born and living in the Netherlands, she was studying to be a social worker. In 2006, using her sister's webcam, she began to post videos of herself to YouTube, singing covers of famous pop artists, and later added her own compositions. Described as having a soulful voice, she quickly became a YouTube celebrity^[2]. By June 10, 2007, less than a year after her homemade song videos first attracted global attention, her impromptu London studio recording^[3] with Justin Timberlake has been viewed over 16 million times, she is currently as of December 2007 the #3 most subscribed of all time, passed Mia Rose to get #1 most subscribed of all Musicians, and she was the 11th all time most viewed^[4] member of YouTube - by comparison, YouTube celebrity lonelygirl15 stood at 7, corporate member Sony BMG Music Entertainment at 35.

In February 2007, Denters, who actively maintains her own pages at Myspace and Dutch social networking site Hyves, announced that she would be traveling to the United States for a ten-day recording session. Just around two weeks later, she announced she had come back from the U.S. and was on her way to Sweden to write and record songs.

By the end of the month, the Reuters news agency distributed a Billboard Magazine article^[5] about Ms. Denters and her trip to the US. Within weeks, she again traveled to the United States, where Reuters reports^[6] her to have signed with songwriter Billy Mann, and to have made a studio recording with Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland.

In May of the same year, Denters announced on a Dutch television show she had signed a recording contract, but did not mention a label. The next day, she posted a studio recording on YouTube, singing Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around", with Timberlake himself playing the piano and singing backup vocals. On June 4, 2007, Dutch late night talk show Esmée Denters, jointly issued a press release^[7], making the contract official the next day.

Denters was the pre-act for Timberlake's show in Amsterdam, her first live performance in June. She performed a half an hour before Timberlake got on stage and she captured footage of the audience of 50,000 on video.^[8] She opened again for Justin Timberlake in Antwerp, Belgium a couple days later.

Denters released another video on YouTube, singing a duet with Natasha Bedingfield of her hit, platinum certified song "Unwritten".

In August, Esmée Denters appeared in a video entitled in it, she explains things about herself including how she became a hit YouTube sensation which subsequently led her to her record deal. Like all the Alpha Kitty videos she partly speaks in her native language and describes, in English, what an Alpha Kitty is.^[9]

In November, Denters performed on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also released a song whose profits will be donated to charity. The song was called "Crazy Place" and was written by Denters. A preview was released at the end of a video she posted on YouTube.^[10]

On April 14th, Esmée released her third celebrity duet, "Stop and Stare", with OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, at which time she also invited her fans to help her create her official logo.

[edit] Discography

• "Crazy Place" (2007), [1] Tennman – Charity single
• "How Am I Supposed To Live (Without You)" (2008), Tennman - Debut single.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Esmée Denters, official site
• Interscope Records Official Site
• Esmée Denters at YouTube

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NAME	Denters, Esmée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Dutch singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	28 September 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oosterbeek, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH