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Last summer, MaT subscribers were invited to a small, intimate house concert in ‘Sconset featuring Ingrid Michaelson. If you were there, you know how beautiful were her songs and was her pitch perfect signing, and that Ingrid is on the way up.

On December 18, the New York Times profiled Ingrid and her ascendent career. Entitled “Singing Her Way From Obscurity to Fame on the Internet”, here are some excerpts.

“Cinderella is alive and well and living on Staten Island. Ingrid Michaelson, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter whose self-produced album “Girls and Boys” reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop chart, is enjoying an enchanted transformation as a recording artist.

“Ms. Michaelson’s climb out of obscurity started, as is so often the case these days, on the Internet. Now she is known to many “Grey’s Anatomy” fans for her quirky, heartfelt songs that were featured over the past year on the ABC television series. After a cross-country music tour, she is performing on Wednesday at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan, and she pointed out that the concert sold out a month ago without any advertising.”

Read the full article here.

On November 7, 2007, VH1 named Ingrid the Next Artist ‘You Oughta Know’, the first unsigned artist to be featured in the high-profile program. Her single “The Way I Am” has sold over 180,000 copies on iTunes and peaked as the #4 most downloaded single. Her appearance on “Last Call With Carson Daly” was one of YouTube’s most watched music videos. Her name and song lyrics to “The Way I Am” and “Keep Breathing” have several times been among the top 50 searches on Google.

The people who brought Ingrid and Josh Ritter to the island last summer plan to bring other artists here this summer, and I expect to be able to offer you an opportunity to be there on one of these very special nights.

Ingrid Michaelson’s MySpace Page

You can also hear a NPR World Cafe Live full concert set here.