{"id":15068,"date":"2013-03-05T03:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:43:08","slug":"youtube-spawns-asian-american-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15068","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Spawns Asian-American Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From movies and TV shows to songs on the radio, there have been fewer opportunities in traditional media for Asian-American entertainers. But the Internet, especially YouTube, has changed that.  Los Angeles has seen an explosion of Asian-American YouTube celebrities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&#038;id=1612446&#038;w=500&#038;h=429&#038;skin=embeded' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' width='640' height='429'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clara Chung loves to create music. She does it in her home studio, surrounded by instruments, a microphone and a computer. She says she didn&#8217;t think her music would turn into a career until it ended up on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Internet was probably the foundation for everything in my career and still is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It provided a global audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using the stage name Clara C, the Korean-American indie pop artist hears from fans from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chung is a part of a large group of Asian-American musicians, actors and comedians who have exploded onto YouTube. Julie Zhan produced a documentary about them called Uploaded: The Asian American Movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHKOBxKUfVQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\">Via www.voanews.com<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From movies and TV shows to songs on the radio, there have been fewer opportunities in traditional media for 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