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YouTube Videos Lead Dupre To Deal With Warner

February 15, 2011/by Sarah Skates

An interesting path led James Dupre to Warner Bros. Records. He was working as a paramedic in Louisiana, singing in bars and making music at night. Eventually one of his many YouTube videos caught the attention of the team at Ellen, who invited him to come on the show.

Last March Dupre visited the fellow Louisiana native’s show and sang the Matchbox Twenty hit, “3 AM” (see video below). That put him on the radar of Warner Bros., which signed him to a record deal.
Dupre has posted over 100 YouTube videos and garnered over 500,000 channel views.
He is working with producers Kyle Lehning and Jerry Douglas, and has an album available at iTunes and CDbaby .com.

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Sarah Skates has been a writer and editor in the music business since 2004. She is a longtime contributor to MusicRow.
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  1. Jeff
    Jeff says:
    February 15, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Awesome news – James has worked hard. Incredibly talented.

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  2. Dana Brown
    Dana Brown says:
    February 15, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Yay James!!! So excited for you. Congratulations you deserve all of this. You are so talented and have worked so hard. I’ll be first in line to buy the cd and sitting front row at your shows. Love ya.

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  3. maureen
    maureen says:
    February 15, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    james has a rare voice and natural God given talent…massive Blessings to you and your families success !!!

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  4. Ryan Tyler
    Ryan Tyler says:
    February 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    I just don’t get it. It’s good but not that good.

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  5. Alice Fix
    Alice Fix says:
    February 15, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    I am so happy to hear this good news for you! You have an awesome talent and it was just a matter of time, my friend!
    This is well deserved and it couldn’t happen to a better person!

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