Harper plays music with 10-year-old YouTube star
Prime Minister Stephen Harper sat down at a piano Tuesday to play music with 10-year-old YouTube sensation Maria Aragon. She played Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. He played John Lennon’s Imagine. She stayed in tune. His was a fine effort, but then again, he’s got a day job on Parliament Hill.
Winnipeg girl to sing with Lady Gaga in Toronto
Maria Aragon, the 10-year-old Winnipeg girl who has become a YouTube sensation after covering a Lady Gaga song, will get a chance to share the stage with the eccentric superstar Thursday night. Aragon, who has made countless television and radio appearances since her piano-based rendition of Born This Way was posted online a few weeks ago, is expected to perform the song with Lady Gaga at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
Photo: Ten year old Maria Aragon exits a limo and is greeted by her classmates at Isaac Brock School in Winnipeg, February 17, 2011 after she was interviewed and sang at a local radio station. (Wayne Glowacki/Winnipeg Free Press)
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