Maria Aragon: The Next Big Thing!

The You Tube Sensation!
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Maria Aragon or Maria Lourdes Aragon was born on July 17, 2000 who is a ten year-old Filipino-Canadian singer. She is a fifth-grade student at the Isaac Brock School. She lives with her brother, two sisters and their parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

A video of Maria performing a cover of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga was posted to her sister's YouTube channel on February 16, 2011 to showcase her talent to family and friends.

The video caught Lady Gaga's attention and she was so impressed by Maria's performance that she tweeted a link to the video to her eight million followers, causing a sensation and launching Maria to instant international fame.

The video garnered over 10 million views on YouTube in five days. In the following day, her video had reached about 19 million views, and still counting today.

Toronto's Virgin Radio 99.9, was among the first media outlets to reach out to Maria and attempted to fly Maria and her family to Toronto so that Maria could perform live on air.

During an interview on HOT 103 in Winnipeg, Lady Gaga called into the show to tell Maria how moved she was to her performance.

Lady Gaga then invited, an already surprised, Maria to perform "Born This Way" with her at The Monster Ball Tour concert in Toronto in March, --- an offer which Maria earnestly accepted.

Before the said event, American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres took notice of her from Lady Gaga's tweet and invited Maria to appear on her show on February 21, 2011, where Maria again performed "Born This Way" on the piano earning a standing ovation from the audience.

On March 3, 2011, Maria joined Lady Gaga on stage in front of a packed audience at the Air Canada Centre, where together they performed an acoustic duet of "Born this Way" with Maria sitting on Gaga's lap, playing piano and Lady Gaga working the pedals.

At the end of the song, Gaga turned the microphone over to Maria who thanked the audience and Gaga for allowing her to perform.

Maria later rejoined Lady Gaga and her team of back up dancers for an uptempo finale version of "Born this Way" culminating in a group hug and loud cheers from the audience.

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