Best Music Video 6 Semi Finals

The 6th $100 Best Music Video Contest is now in the semi finals on www.MakeAStar.com


http://www.makeastar.com/contest.asp?rContestId=7684


The second semi final match pits Cape Town, South Africa rock band 12th Avenue up against Los Angeles rap artist Sincere.






Here is the biography for 12th Avenue and their video for 'Over The Edge':
12th Avenue is a 4-piece Rock band consisting of Mark Haze (vocals/guitar), Conrad Whiley (guitar), Stanley Hill (bass) and Gareth Haze (drums). Hailing from Cape Town, SA, the band has earned a reputation for being one of the hardest working, and most energetic and entertaining live acts in the country. The band has just released "Sober", the third and final chapter in the "Crazy" trilogy, which tells the story of two fictional characters "Anjee" and "12". The album was recorded at LMX Studios in Constantia, Cape Town, SA and it was produced by Canadian Producer, Moon, who also produced the band's past two albums, "Crazy" and "Insane". "Sober" was released through Musketeer Records, who are also Seether's distribution label in South Africa. 12th Avenue had the honour of supporting Seether on all the dates of their Homecoming SA Tour in June 2008, playing to over 20 000 people over 4 nights. 12th Avenue has also headlined at some of SA’s top live music venues, including Mercury Live and Lounge, CT; Tempos, JHB; Roxy Rhythm Bar, JHB; Burn, Durban; Zeplins, PTA; The Blues Room, JHB and many more. 12th Avenue has achieved great success with the single "Crazy", which maintained the Number One position on the Hi 5 @ 5 on 5FM for six consecutive weeks in 2006. The EP "Crazy" was also voted "Album of the Year" by zazone.com in the same year. The band's single, "Living in my Life" off the album "Insane", also achieved the Number One spot on 5FM's Hi 5 @ 5 and stayed on the chart for almost four months. 12th Avenue's latest single "Time Bomb" is currently tearing up radio waves across SA, achieving Number One on Rhodes Radio, with the single’s music video receiving airplay on DSTV music station, MK. The band plan to release the follow-up single in winter 2009.


Here is the biography for Los Angeles Rap artist Sincere and his video for 'Never Say':
Rapper/singer Sincere began working at his craft when he was only 8 years-old, emulating his older family members with his own style of rap to impress his friends. He’s made a name for himself with his freeform, unrehearsed style, and has also gained attention from a few of his songs with samples of well-known mainstream rock and pop songs. It’s not every hip hop song that features an intro to a Journey song or the acoustic guitar part from an Avril Lavigne track. In the recording studio, he is known to just step in front of the microphone and let the words flow, with no rehearsal, hesitation or preconceived notion. He won’t name inspirations, compare himself to anyone or go out of his way to explain who he is. He chooses to let his music speak for him. "That’s the best form of creativity: just take it as it comes," says Sincere, 23, from Southern California. "Somebody had an Avril Lavigne song on their MySpace page and I was like hmm, let me see if I can find something that I can sample on Avril Lavigne. I saw the title of "Things I’ll Never Say," clicked on it, and it was a great song. It was perfect, and exactly how I wanted to use it." The finished product became "Never Say," his own track expressing himself about the things he never said to a loved one. Extremely passionate about music, Sincere sees himself as humble, passionate yet very strong, and wants to appeal to "all shapes of life." "You can just tell that I love music," he says. "Music is every shade of life, from anger to happiness, happiness to sadness. Some songs you already have it and it just flows. I just take it as it comes." His music will appear on an upcoming commercial for eBay and on a DVD import later this year.