Around the time of the London Calling concert a believer-who-will-not-be-named (just kidding!) listed a number of artists on his site that he thought were underrated. "What's up with this!!??" I thought, as each and every single one of these artists were already on the first three pages of the Artist roster. How can you call artists with thousands of dollars behind their name 'underrated'? This sounds more like investment advice, but Sellaband has no differentiated share price, so one moment to start believing is as good as the other...Now here's my definition of underrated: An artist who despite clear artistic talent and market potential does not seem to get past $1000 or a 100 parts. Perhaps their music is a bit out of the mainstream, perhaps they don't have pretty pictures up and perhaps they don't show their face on the Sellaband website enough (because they're working hard on their music!?). Perhaps it's just that we need more believers to keep all good artists in the picture.
My perfect example of this kind of artist is Angie Arsenault, a songwriter/singer/piano player from Canada. In the first weeks of her joining Sellaband in April she rose quickly to a couple of hundred dollars, and then she got stuck. I won't guess as to the reasons why, but nothing changed in the quality of her material and the strong way she performs it. She works hard on her music, and puts a new video of a song up on YouTube in her Shattered Windows series every couple of weeks (see photo, videos found through her website). Her full first EP is even downloadable for free, in exchange for your e-mail address!
Wherever Angie is in the roster now, she deserves to be among the page 1 and 2 artists! This artist needs to be noticed! (VB)
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