There was an opener. I thought she did a good job. It’s tough opening for Bruno Mars, a guy at the top of the heap, putting on a show like that.
But she was good. So good in fact I wanted to look her up on Instagram during her set to learn more about her.
She didn’t get to use the full lighting production that Bruno had but she used a small version and along with it had a big LED sign in the middle of the stage with her name on it that stayed lit up the entire time and changed colors.
Excellent idea.
(If you’re an opener and don’t have your name visible 100% of the time you should have your opening slot revoked.)
So I typed in her name on Insta.
No results.
Typed in her name on Google and got a stock market chart with some municipal bonds.
Here was the trouble…
The LED sign that was custom built so that 20,000 people would constantly see her name every night of the tour said
EMaix
So that’s what I searched.
But that’s not her name.
Her name is Ella Mai.
I was able to find this because I was determined to after initially finding no results.
But it wasn’t easy to find, and I doubt most people would bother.
I’m open to suggestions as to why it said EMaix instead of Ella Mai.
If you’re the opener the bar is lower…which is to your benefit. If you exceed the bar (which can be planeed for instead of hoped for) we want to know who you are.
The two places we’ll look are 1) the person next to us 2) the stage
You can’t do anything about the first one, but the second one rests squarely on your shoulders.
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