They found love and fame in a usual place. Love in college; fame on Youtube. The duo Amy Heideman and Nick Noonan met in
Former wedding singer, Amy majored in professional music and vocals, while Chris majored in performance focusing on jazz trombone, when the two met at Berkley College of Music. Then they did a cover of Chris Brown’s Look At Me and 14 million views on youtube later, they were featured on Ellen de Generes, Ryan Seacrest and now have their own single.
The duo now famously known as Karmin, recently got engaged but not before the release of their debut single, Crash Your Party, late last year. The pop single, features a rap interlude from Amy, whose rapping style is like a Kesha-meets-Nicki-Minaj style at Scatman speed, while her pipes tremor with Gaga-like tenacity when she belts out verses.
On the video, the two step into and out of guitar boxes, refrigerators and on to karaoke bars and concert stages as they wag their fingers at the audience and apologize for their derriere-references by bringing their hands to their mouths.
The duo who rose to fame with covers of Superbass by Nicki Minaj and Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, explained in a recent interview why covers are a good way to get noticed on youtube, ‘the cool thing about doing cover songs, if you're relatively unknown as an artist, is that people are searching for "Look at Me Now" by Chris Brown. And if you're able to put the right search tags in, your cover will sneak in there with the actual song.
Heideman’s dramatizations on the videoclip are very much like the pinky-in-the-air, wide eyed theatrics that we came to love Katy Perry for, and maybe that’s why the duo are set to be featured on Saturday Night Live when Zoey Deschanel is expected to do a Katy Perry impersonation given the uncanny resemblance. Noonan plays the more subdued member of Karmin as he glances at the camera sheepishly on occasion, steals a hat and wags a finger when not thumping on keyboards or twirling a big bass.
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