Music Interview: Maribelle Anes

We’d  like to introduce an upcoming star Maribelle Anes;She is a 14 year old singer who currently lives in Melbourne, Australia. We’re pretty sure you have come across her in videos or songs on YouTube some may be in collaboration with artists such as Lil’ Crazed, jFlip, Jason Chen and much more…

Tony: First off, lets start with a little introduction of yourself, name, age, location, interests etc…
Maribelle: Maribelle Anes, I’m 14 turning 15 in August residing in Melbourne, Australia. I like music, and a bit of sport and food hahahha.
Tony: How did you get into music? And when did you realise you were good and could maybe pursue it as a future career?
Maribelle: Well, I came from a very musical family and my mum would always make me sing at church as a little girl; I LOVED hi-5 and always sung along with every single song. Then at the end of year 7 my cousin posted a video of me singing without me knowing I was a bit upset about it at first but then I realised people started to like my stuff so I kept doing more videos and here I am now
Tony: Ah I see, since you’re still pretty young, do you think that gives you any disadvantages or advantages on YouTube?
Maribelle: Well yeah, I think its pretty much an advantage even though I get A LOT of people saying they don’t believe I’m 14 and people think I’m very talented for a 14 year old
Tony: Yeah I would imagine so, when I first saw your video I thought you were like 17 or something haha. What are your plans for the future? Stay on the YouTube scene for a while until you get “bigger” or try to sign with label as soon as possible?
Maribelle: Hmm.. my plans for the future… Well I’d definitely love to get signed soon but I’ve got the rest of my life for that so for now its just to get my views and subs up
Tony: And what do you think of the YouTube rappers/Rnb singers now? Like the underground ones such as Lil’ Crazed, Traphik, D-Pryde etc.
Maribelle: Well, they are all pretty much my inspirations; one of my goals is to collaborate with pretty much all of them! hahaha
Tony: Haha, I saw your collaboration with Lil’ Crazed, how was that? Was it fun to work with him and Skip?
Maribelle: Yeah it was awesome! I was so surprised that he replied back we’re actually working on another song right now!
Tony: That’s sick, I’ll be waiting to hear it! Have you ever thought about auditioning for Australia’s Got Talent or X-Factor or something like that? You know, to maybe gain even more exposure.
Maribelle: I have actually, but I get really nervous performing in front of an audience, I think I just need a bit more time
Tony: I see, Justin Bieber’s fast road to fame came from YouTube as well, is that a dream of yours? To get famous that quickly? Or would you more likely prefer to wait, get a bit older/mature and then get famous
Maribelle: Wow, hard question umm hahaha. I’d love to become famous quickly but I want to still live my life you’re only young once so I might as well make the most of it right now with whatever happens in the future if that made sense, lol!
Tony: Haha, I get it . Do your parents support you? Have you told this is something that you want to pursue as a job? Knowing Asian parents, they might have other plans (Doctor, Lawyer etc) haha.
Maribelle: Hahaha nah my parents are with me all the way, my whole extended family is with me as well. They tell their friends about my YouTube and everything but my dad just always tells me to keep my feet on the ground because you never know if I’m gonna become successful or not.
Tony: Ah that’s always good to have ^^. After how long on YouTube was it that you started to have more subscribers?
Maribelle: Well it was actually after I started getting promoted and doing more collaborations after being in mychonnys video I got more subscribers then with the beatbox hit man got even more and the the same with Jason Chen then with lil crazed got HEAPS more!
Tony: Ahk, also another question; What’s the deal at school? Do students just see you as another person, or do most people recognize you? Have you ever performed in front of them?
Maribelle: Well all my friends still see me as me, because I’m still the same person but sometimes I get people coming up to me like ‘oh my god you can sing?! wowwww’ but my friends never knew I could sing as well until my first youtube video (: and yeah I performed once for them last year at ’star search’ sort of like my schools version of Australian Idol they were screaming like crazy, it was awesome!
Tony: Haha that sounds awesome. Moving away from music now; What else do you like to do in your spare time?
Maribelle: Music. HAHA it’s pretty much all I do unless I’m out with friends or doing school work
Tony: Haha! And does doing all this music take up your time for school work? Are you a true asian with straight A’s?
Maribelle: HAHA honestly, no. I don’t really get such great grades! but I’m working on it
Tony: , so do you dance or anything? Choreo, Bgirl, Cwalk etc? Even if its for fun
Maribelle: Well, I wish I could dance but I look like a complete idiot when I try so I just muck around with it HAHAHA
Tony: hahaha! So what’s your history with E11eventh Avenue? How did you meetup and how come you left?
Maribelle: E11eventh avenue… Well Christian Joseph and I found each other’s youtubes and we were just talking about music and all; Then he told me that they wanted a girl member in E11eventh Avenue and I went for it – you’ll see the video on my YouTube (thankyou cover) and I got in. Kharisma – one of the rappers lived here in Melbourne and he had a better microphone than me so I would come over sometimes to record some of our tracks and such so that was basically my time in E11eventh Avenue. The reason I left was because well… I wanted to be more of a solo singer and it also felt a bit weird being the only girl in the group and they’re all 18+ and I was only 13 at the time.
Tony: Oh wow haha, yeah that would be a bit weird. Do you still keep in contact with them? Or is it more doing you own thang ?
Maribelle: Well I try to keep in contact, but they’re all busy with uni and music and all
Tony: Haha very interesting. Just before we wrap things up, do you have any shoutouts?
Maribelle: Yeah to all of those people I mentioned and also lawrence! he’s my age and is making quite a few beats for me at the moment, hes awesome *Lawrence Siachico*.
Tony: Haha nice, thanks for taking the time to let me interview you

———————————————-

- http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Official-Maribelle-Anes-Fan-Page/233125849816

- http://www.YouTube.com/user/mariballstv

Read 22588 times by 5273 visitors