Terra Naomi wins YouTube's best music video award · 2007-03-28 13:00
After seven years of writing and performing, singer Terra Naomi was booking her own tours and trying to make ends meet singing for commercials.
"It was getting tiring and expensive to drive myself around and play for, sometimes, 12 people," Naomi says. "I told my producer I didn't see how I was going to go out on the road again."
Last summer she started filling out waitress applications. And uploading videos on YouTube.
Waitressing can wait, Houston Chronicle reports.
On Monday Naomi's video, Say It's Possible, was named best music winner in the first annual YouTube Video Awards. On Tuesday she was boarding a plane to London to promote for her first album for Island Records.
"I’m a bit frazzled," says Naomi, who's in her "late" 20s. "We're going to release the (music) first in the U.K. We'll release the first single on June 11, Say It's Possible, and the album in August."
The YouTube Video Awards were given out in seven categories, including: most creative (OK Go); most inspirational (Free Hugs); best series (Ask a Ninja); best comedy (Smosh); best commentary (the Wine-kone); most adorable video (Kiwi!).
YouTube selected 10 nominees for each category and gave its "community" of watchers ??“ meaning almost everyone with a computer ??“ five days to put the videos in their preferred order.
Another winner is the comic team Smosh, 19-year-old college students Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox.
While Naomi is moving to London, Hecox and Padilla still are shooting their videos ??“ mostly in Padilla's bedroom in Carmichael, Calif. ??“ and attending American River College in Sacramento part-time.
Sudden popularity has been the downfall of many an artist, but 19 is too young to freak about success.
"We tend to read a lot of the comments and we know what is or isn't working," Hecox says. "We seem to do just fine coming up with new ideas."
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