Esmée Denters – YouTube pop music sensation – recently sat down with Kiss 100's DJ Swerve after opening for Ne-Yo at the O2 arena in London.
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Watch the backstage footage of YouTube, getting signed and meeting Justin Timberlake for the first time.
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Esmée Denters is one of the first artists signed to Justin Timberlake’s Interscope imprint Tennman Records. Hard to believe when, just two years ago, this Dutch 20-year-old was a pancake house waitress with a webcam and a dream.
Esmée Denters’s videos had racked up 21 million views and she became the No. 1 Most-Subscribed to Musician in the history of the popular video-sharing website.
It may have been her YouTube popularity that led Justin Timberlake to seek out Esmée Denters who wants to go out and dance and have fun. The acoustic-flavored Just Can’t Have It and the epic-sounding, string-laden Gravity show she can also sing about serious stuff.
For Esmée Denters, working with Justin Timberlake and other stars is just another thrilling part of a journey that has been full of surreal moments - like stepping onstage for her first-ever live performance as the opening act for Timberlake on the European leg of his FutureSex/LoveShow Tour in June 2007. The girl who had previously only sung for her webcam was suddenly performing for nearly 70,000 people at the Amsterdam Arena in Holland.
YouTube sensations.
YouTube (her official channel alone has now racked up more than 133 million views), to scoring a record deal with one of her musical idols, to being able to realize her dream of making an album of songs she’s extremely proud of.
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