Red Ribbon Week at BJHS

Baldwin Junior High students were entertained Wednesday morning, October 28th by the special talents of Esmee Denters. Esmee is one of the first artists signed to Justin Timberlake’s Interscope imprint Tennman Records, but a mere two years ago, this Dutch 20-year old was a pancake house waitress with a webcam and a dream.

Esmee was 17 when she began posting videos of herself on YouTube which she recorded in the bedroom of her suburban home of Oosterbeek in the Netherlands.  When the videos were a hit and viewers started to make requests, Esmee was encouraged and began posting several clips a week, including songs she’d written herself.

Within nine months, Esmees’ videos had racked up 21 million views and the teenager became the No. 1 most-subscribed to Musician in the history of the popular video-sharing website.  Esmee shared with students the importance of not doing drugs or drinking alcohol if you expect to succeed. She told students when asked if she ever drank “No, I do not do drugs or alcohol!”