Saturday 27 August 2005

VMA first impressions

From the day they first pick up an instrument until they put it down for the last time, musicians go through certain rites of passage that they are likely to always remember. There's their very first performance, the first time they hear their song on the radio, the first time they're recognized on the street - and, of course, there's the first time they appear on MTV.

For many artists, that unforgettable first comes in the form of their debut video, but a number of others found alternate routes to airtime, from backup dancing to scoring a cameo in the video of a friend to simply volunteering as an extra. Take a look at some of this year's Video Music Award nominees and their first times on MTV:

Mariah Carey

It's hard to imagine Mariah Carey covering up most of her voluptuous bod, but that's exactly what she did for her first appearance on MTV, in the 1990 video for "Vision of Love". Dressed in a leathery leotard, Carey wore her hair in curls and looked more like a young Christina Aguilera than the Mariah we know today.

(MTV News)



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