Greetings from the UK --

Although Ginny was born in Tuscany and has all the passion and spirit of a feisty Italian... her singing heart feels more at home away from Italian music - and with western "English / American" music.

Pop - soul - R&B

Ginny is thrilled that she has been picked up by one of the legendary Music Producers in the UK - a veteran of the industry that has worked with Depeche Mode (#depechemode), the Eurythmics (#eurythmics), Genesis (#genesis), Robert plant (#robertplant) and a host of mammoth names from the music industry.

This weekend Ginny has been at the amazing studios near Bristol UK - laying down the first two tracks of the collaboration.

Ginny says "It has been tough. We've been working solid for about 2 days without breaks. This is just the start but I'm thrilled with the sound we've got. I think I've really found my voice here."

2015 is a big year for Ginny - building in her successes to date in 2013 and 2014. This sees a major shift from the project studios in #rome where the new songs will be created - to a major international #studio where the sound will be enriched and given a huge sound.

Ginny is looking forward to sharing the new songs in 2015... 

In the meantime you can catch some of her covers here....

A little karaoke going on

This month Ginny has been preparing to hit the studio in the UK to record new versions of he songs.
In the meantime - Ginny just can't sit still so she has been recording some Karaoke to have some fun.

Check out here her #ladygaga song "Edge of Glory" (lady Gaga)

And here is Ginny singing #brunomars song "When I was your man" (Bruno Mars)

Please comment  - and join Ginny singing

#karaoke #singalong

2015 -- lots going on

Hi and welcome to Ginny Vee in 2015.

There is a ton of new stuff going on with Ginny in 2015. Some we can tell you about - but other things we are keeping a secret until later in the year.

Needless to say her social media presence gets stronger and stronger
He fan base is getting larger and from more countries (over 42 different countries have a fan base)
Ginny remains in the top 3 of #Reverberation

But 2015 will be a break out year for Ginny - already with a live tour being planned and more importantly new music is well underway in the Project Studio and production on her songs is progressing nicely with an amazing UK producer and UK studio - so watch out for those announcements and more.

This year will we major overhauls of the website - Facebook and other social media channels.

So keep sharing - keep following - keep supporting Ginny Vee

#music #pop #singer #femaleartist #ginnyvee #nextbigmusicartist #album

More Website Updates

One of the things that we pride ourselves on and Ginny Vee is passionate about is listening to #fan feedback.

Ginny's official website is starting to get significant traffic and that brings a wider variety of fans, friends, followers and people from all over the globe.

OLD SITE

NEW SITE

What is exciting is when we get good and bad feedback on the #site, the #blog, #facebook, #twitter and all of the social platforms that Ginny uses on a daily basis to reach fans and friends.

The #website for Ginny continues to evolve and based on feedback from the fans we have made some recent updates. Here's the feedback and the changes we've made based on that...

"It's not clear it's a music site" - So we have made that much bolder and stronger with a simple "Love music" badge. We've also on the #home page altered the graphics to look much more like a #CD cover. We've tried to give a flavour of the "music" in the artist. Wears added in more of the EP artwork and the name of the EP - front and centre.

"The color is too washed out" - This feedback came in various phrases. People felt the site needed to be much more #pop much more vibrant. So we have added a lot more of a pop element color palate to the site. Ginny is "girly" so we have added some girly colors - young vibrant and fresh. We have added a lot more color badges and color text. But the biggest change is that we have moved from the "washed out" background images to the much more vibrant - natural color images. Great feedback "Ginny has beautiful red hair - let's see it".

"Don't force me to hear the music on every page" - You may imagine that on a #music site - you want to hear the music - right? Well not so. We found a lot of people said that the sudden blaring out of Ginny's #songs was something people wanted to choose. So we respect that. Some people want to dip in and just look at the #socialmedia feed - or the #selfies. So we have limited #autoplay to very specific pages #watch and #listen - and for the rest we have placed some songs with a #soundcloud player where you can play if you want.

"I want bigger navigation" - Making the site it was really intuitive to us that on the home page you had to click the links in the image - well not everyone thought so. So we had several requests for a much bigger bolder #navbar. You wanted it - you got it. 

"Search engines come up with weird pages" - Unfortunately our page naming convention (which we thought would be different than just #music #videos #twitter etc) was more based on what you want to do... But apparently #google didn't quite see it that way. As an example - in the #searchengines Ginny's Home page just came up as "home" - and said nothing about the page. This made it a bit confusing for people doing #organic #search. Well we changed that so now if you go to your favourite search engine and type "Ginny Vee" you should get a real site name and description (let us know if not)

We have also made a lot of minor tweaks and the #code behind the site is better for viewing on mobile devices "Some of the pages don't show well on iPHONE" - we hope we have resolved some of the issues and it should look better - simpler and easier now on #mobile. 

BUT - we are not finished yet. Based upon the exciting new project we have going on for Ginny (we can't say too much yet) - we are playing with a really rich - upgraded site structure which we will release some time in 2015. This will reflect new music - new videos and all important #tour dates.

We love #feedback - so please keep it coming and know that Ginny is listening.

Go check out the site right now at www.ginnyvee.com 

Gone Digital - Heaven n Back

As promised we want to update everyone on the way we are using social media and social networks to grow Ginny Vee as an Online artist.
The last weeks have been very busy and we want to share some key updates.

Digital distribution is one of the foundation blocks of today's music artist. We believe that you cannot make "money" as such from music so we have released all of Ginny's Music for free. You can simply go - click and download straight from these sites:

SOUND CLOUD  -  https://soundcloud.com/ginnyvee/tracks



REVERBNATION http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/ginnyvee




However we found that many people - even if the songs are available for free - want to download from the iTUNES store or GOOGLE PLAY to android in a higher quality audio format that goes straight to their iPHONE or ANDROID

iTUNES https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/heaven-n-back-single/id935991341?l=en

AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-n-Back/dp/B00P4AANTO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1415781509&sr=8-2&keywords=Ginny+Vee

GOOGLE PLAY
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Ginny_Vee_Heaven_n_Back_Single?id=B7rwcmy24fppnjaebzf6a6hdaty&hl=en

But as with everything digital in the music industry - fad come fast and go fast. The digital "Ownership" era seems to be passing fast - so we also want to ensure that Ginny's music is available for everyone that wishes to stream the live music. So we have also made Ginny Vee's music available on as many streaming services as possible: here's a few of the big ones >>

DEEZER
http://www.deezer.com/album/9061041

SPOTIFY
Ginny Vee – Heaven n Back - Single

RDIO
http://www.rdio.com/artist/Ginny_Vee/

In the coming weeks we will ensure that you can get Ginny Vee's Music on as many digital media sources as possible. If you have a favorite then just let us know and we will ensure that you get it.

BUT we need help from you - Ginny needs help from you. 

The music industry is no longer based on record sales - it is based on music as the core - but then social sharing - social media. What we would ask is that you share these sources as many times as you can. Please visit the sites or the links and share as wide as you can. This will get the music of Ginny recognized - spread and known about. Our goal at A Star Made by You has always been to create a social media musician from nowhere - and we are getting there. We have over 40,000 hard core fans now across many of the social media platforms such as GOOGLE PLUS, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TUMBLR, BLOGGER  and host of social music sites. But now we ant to really promote Ginny's music - so we need YOUR help to make sure that as many people as possible get to hear this song and the other great music by Ginny.

Recently we also added a bonus video of "Heaven n Back" on YouTube. Although never originally set up as the definitive Heaven n Back video - we shot a series of "glamour" shots of Ginny in the Studio to create a Promo Show Reel. Last week we decided that some of the scenes were actually really good - so we have edited them together into a small video clip 

You can get all of Ginny's videos - music and behind the scenes videos by subscribing to her video channel here: SUBSCRIBE HERE

In the past 12 months we have made huge progress with GINNY VEE becoming a well known sound, face and brand across social media. We would like to thank the thousands of Fans that support her, share her social media, sounds and make sure that everyday she grows. We are committed to making Ginny a huge Digital Star and will bring her music and videos to as may platforms as possible.

All suggestions are welcome and all sharing of her digital content is granted to anyone for FREE. So go ahead - copy - share and download as much as you like - Ginny has gone Digital.

Do you want to know a secret?

Okay - so we have literally been getting hundreds of requests to Ginny that sort of go like this...

"How do you make it in the music world. How do you become a new music artist?"

Now this may seem strange that people are asking a relatively unknown music artist this kind of advice. You'd think they would be asking some of the greats in the music industry - so we asked back "Why are you asking Ginny?"

This is a very telling answer about the way the world has changed in the digital era.

The answer seems to go something like this. The young aspiring music artists no longer feel that the classic #a&R path is valid anymore. They think the record labels like #sonymusic #emi #warnermusic are all heading the way of the dinosaurs. Their huge promotion machines are less powerful in the digital age of #twitter and #facebook #youtube and #vevo. The power as we've been saying for the last year is in the hands of the fans not the companies.

Recording studios and technology were once so far out of reach of the masses that it was unthinkable that an individual could take it upon themselves to record a professional level song. But with the power of #apple and dedicated recording software like #protools - that power is in the hand of the individual.

So those people are not looking to the megastars that have already made it - they are looking to people like #ginny that are right in the eye of the storm - doing this through the power of social media. They want to know the real world experience of how she is managing to get a huge social media following - and getting her sounds out through digital media such as #soundcloud and #reverbnation.

Our initial project #astarmadebyyou was all about encouraging this type of venture - so we have decided to share ALL of the secrets that have been behind Ginny and her rapid rise to fame. Through this blog and one of Ginny's #google+ pages we are going to help people to learn from the lessons we have been learning.

There is no right answer! This industry is now a rapidly moving target - digital distribution like #spotify or #deezer #beats or a host of streaming services are already decimating #itunes.
The movement is that rapid. What we can share is what we know today - what is working and what is not. We have set up a YouTube channel where some of the production team will discuss what we have been doing - and where we are going and more importantly how we are doing it.

We feel we have amazing success with the Ginny Vee brand - but we can always be better. We hope that we will get support from fans and other musicians as we move forward with this project.

As an initial starting place we are sharing this youtube channel. Knowledge is not power any more- acting on the knowledge in the right way is - so we will share everything.

WATCH SOME USEFUL VIDEOS HERE

We have shared some of the videos that helped us to make sense of this ever changing world of musical promotion - demos - digital and the near future of this industry.
If you have a direct question then simply comment - of ask Ginny on her G+ or FB pages.

This will be fun.

Fans really defend their idols !!!

So we recently ran a small test marketing campaign -

We simply placed this picture on FaceBook...

We did not ask "Which is your favorite singer" or "which is your favorite girl" - we simply asked Which color you prefer.

The images are #shakira, #Katyperry and of course our #ginnyvee

The response has been quite interesting in terms of outcomes and the way that fans react. So here are some interesting results.

Over 60,000 people saw the image - and clicked on the photo.

#black got 40% of the vote with #blonde and #red getting 30% each

BUT - that was not the interesting thing about this #poll. What we found is that the majority of people ignored the question and simply named their favorite #musicartist.

#Shakira was by far nominated as the top artist by her fans - and that may be part of the fact that she has so many and on #facebook. But on #goolgeplus #katyperry won hands down.
(We didn't expect Ginny to stack up against these two mega houses of pop)

Yet - in terms of which artist was considered the best looking - #Ginny won by a small amount above #katy - So (of course we agree Ginny is the best looking by far). Yet no one asked "who is the best looking" - but it shows that in the world of pop #image is massive influencer on the following of an artist. #A&R, #recordproducers #musicproducers get a big boost if their artist is a great singer and #sexy.

Now here's some more interesting #facts about the vote. #perry fans were by far and away the most aggressive - with the strongest comments and by far the most #shares to other #katyperry sites across the web. There is such a loyal following to #katy and the #katycats. It was also very telling just how many commenters and likers had a name with #katy in it!!!

Whereas #shakira names and a predominant #fans tag to their names.

On #redheads - you cannot imagine how fiercely they #ginger and #redhead supporting public fought for Ginny. It seems there is a massive demand for more #redheaded singers in the world of pop. Maybe it removes some of the #stigma that #redhaired people feel. Although we want to sat we love #redhair and so does #ginny.

The biggest support for #redhair came out of the #twitter traffic with a massive support for #red.

We plan on running this campaign again across the networks with a slightly different theme - so watch out and keep voting.