Tayla competes for chance at Sony deal
ASPIRING Toowoomba singer Tayla Mae Crotty is one of eight people Australia-wide competing for a chance to release an album with Sony Music.
The young woman has gained thousands of online followers by recording cover songs and released her first original song Trust Me on iTunes in 2015.
It made it to number 51 on the Australian Pop Charts.
Now, Ms Crotty is part of The ShareSpace, which is a music collaboration and talent development program broadcast through an original content series on YouTube.
The program runs for 30 days, with the first episode being streamed to YouTube on Sunday.
Ms Crotty is competing against seven other hopefuls, collaborating, creating and sharing music videos. They are then uploaded to YouTube and their fans’ likes, views, comments and shares will determine the winner.
In the first music video of the competition Ms Crotty sang Pursuit of Happiness.
In 15 hours the music video had 4200 views and rising.
She is already ahead of her competition with duo Take That coming in with the second highest views, on 3200.
Ms Crotty said she was so excited to be part of something that could change her life.
“The ShareSpace has given me the opportunity to sign a record deal, but I need to get the most thumbs up, comments and shares on my cover,” she said.
Head to The ShareSpace on YouTube to check out Ms Crotty’s music clip.