We chatted with Mia over IM about her latest song, her singing, and the impact YouTube has had on her career – and learned a bit more about some of her other interests as well.

Stay tuned for her record to come out – we’ll surely be hearing more from Mia.

Featuring: Mia Rose

ugcDb: Congratulations on the record deal and your new song, “Hold me Now” – when does your record come out?

Mia Rose: thank you! The single should be released in November if all goes well.

ugcDb: Are you going to create a video for Youtube for it? or just the mySpace song for now?

Mia Rose: I’ll definitely promote it on Youtube and put up a video with some footage of the making of it!

ucgDb: The song is getting a lot of plays right now – over 30,000 on MySpace – have you gotten any feedback from it yet?

Mia Rose: Oh yeh!! I’m so excited that the people like it and the feedback has been so positive!! I mean it was my first song, and I was part of the making of it, so its kind of like my “baby”, so I feel very proud of its progress!!

ugcDb: I read in your bio that you’ve been singing since you were six – how did you get started?

Mia Rose: Its such a funny story actually!! When I was a baby, when I would cry, my dad would put the music louder and louder, so I think from that I was poisoned with a love for music. I don’t know if that makes sense, but ever since I sang everywhere!!

ugcDb: Did you take any singing classes or anything like that while growing up?

Mia Rose: Nope! I wanted to! But I never really got around to it! I was more interested in sports! lol

ugcDb: What sports did you play?

Mia Rose: Volley ball, EUROPEAN football basket ball, surfing!! I love sports

ugcDb: So if you weren’t singing, would you be doing something more sports related?

Mia Rose: Actually no, lol, this probably sounds confusing! But as I had a passion for music, I also have one for literature! I’m a shakespeare junkie!! I was taking a course in university – Journalism with English literature! I’d probably be a journalist

ugcDb: You rose up pretty quickly in YouTube – how big a role has YouTube played in your music career?

Mia Rose: Its been a key instrument because if it wasn’t for YouTube, it probably would have took me much longer to be “discovered”, shall we say, by the music industry! Its a great place (YouTube) with amazing prospects for musicians, aspiring comedians, directors etc…

ugcDb: There were some rumors earlier on that maybe you were a “lonelygirl15″ type of person – how did you handle those kind of comments?

Mia Rose: It was definitely tough at the beginning because I wasn’t used to having people who didn’t know me judge me and criticize me – let alone formulate a preposterous theory around my rise! I understood their probable reasoning behind it but it was unfair and unjust. I guess I was just lucky and people actually enjoyed listening to me singing!! The reason why I had quite a few subscribers which had no videos watched was because YouTube has a thing where when you join for the first time you have to chose 2 or 3 (I don’t really know) channels that you can immediately subscribe to and at one point mine was one! So you see? all one big conspiracy! lol

ugcDb: Getting back to the songs/album – are you collaborating with any other musicians?

Mia Rose: We are definitely looking at a duet with a fellow artist! I was hoping Tyler Hilton or James Morrison (cuz they’re great) but we haven’t quite decided yet!

ugcDb: Do you have any advice for upcoming musicians?

Mia Rose: Sure! Be headstrong about your abilities and always be humble! Also “no one can ever make you feel bad without your consent” so don’t let anyone’s harsh words bring you down!

Hugs and Kisses!!!

Mia Rose
The Mottola Company
745 Fifth Ave. Suite 800
New York, NY 10151

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Kisses and Hugs!!