Let's #getmariaonellen

Was intrigued by the hashtag  #getmariaonellen on Twitter yesterday and discovered ten year old Filipino-Canadian Maria Aragon.

Here she is with her cover of Lady Gaga's Born This Way:



(Incidentally, that video is now approaching 3 million views -- way, way up from just 700,000 hits yesterday afternoon.)

Could she be the next Charice?

It depends on whether more people see her -- calling Ellen DeGeneres!

Charice rocks.

At THIS LINK.

Lea Michele's character is threatened big-time and well, watch the video to see what happens.

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Glee season 2 preview: Charice vs Lea Michele

This is going to be great!

Want to be the Next Charice?

By now, everyone knows that Charice has landed a role as a recurring character in the hit TV series, "Glee".

If you didn't, here's proof (jump to 1:02):



The story of how Charice got to where she is now follows the lately-discovered formula for becoming a star in the Age of the Social Internet:

get one tremendously talented person, shoot Youtube videos, pass them around, get them to wow Oprah / Ellen and BAM... you're a star!


Some other Filipino kids (or maybe they just look Filipino) who could be following in Charice's footsteps are the following kids I discovered through a post in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. They're contestants in a Hong Kong talent contest called Star Factor.

Check them out and if you feel they could be the next Charice, vote for them. Voting ends tomorrow, so do it now.

Russell Salazar


Janina Celine de Castro Vitto


Margaret Ortega


Jan Carl Aunario