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And it came to pass that 20 minutes after she learned Umbrella, Rihanna’s hit single, Marie Digby sat before her MacBook at home, filmed herself performing the song and uploaded it on the web. In a jiffy, Marie’s performance scored over 500,000 views on YouTube,earning her a national TV appearance on the TV show Last Call with Carson Daly and a slot on the season premiere of The Hills.

“One impatient girl” is how Marie (pronounced Mar-ee-AY), 26, is described by those close to her. As a toddler, she started taking piano and guitar lessons and, inspired by her favorite artists (Martin Sexton, Beth Orton and Poe among them), started writing songs. She didn’t stop there.

The daughter of a Japanese mother and an Irish-American father, Marie entered a national songwriting contest sponsored by Pantene. Her winning piece, Miss Invisible, won the top prize. It wouldn’t be long before she signed up with Hollywood Records in 2002. It was five years later, in May 2007, that she did Umbrella which became such a huge hit on YouTube that her home company made Marie record that song along with the cover of Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done and two of Marie’s original songs (Stupid For You and Unfold which is the title track of her debut CD). Her second album,Breathing Underwater, was recently released locally by MCA Music. [ Source: philstar.com ]

Marie Digby @ Podium, Ortigas Center – 29Jul2009

• Meet and Greet

Marie Digby Concert @ NBC Tent, The Fort – 01Aug2009

1. Overboard
2. Breathing Underwater
3. Come To Life
4. Symphony
5. Love With A Stranger
6. Daybreak
7. Know You By Heart
8. Studpid For You
9. Walking Away
10. Unfold

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