The Stella Sisters are set to make their prime-time television debut tonight on the hit series Nashville, but don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them yet — you will soon enough.
Lennon and Maisy Stella, 13 and eight years old, respectively, are the latest singing sensations to turn their YouTube views into mainstream success. The Oshawa, Ontario-based daughters of real-life musicians Brad and Marylynne Stella have amassed more than nine million views for their stirring cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” while playing percussion on empty butter containers (below). The sisters will play the fictional daughters of Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton) on the Oct. 24 episode of Nashville.
In it, they’ll get a chance to show off their singing chops while performing a cover of a song from character Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) during a school talent show.
That should put them in familiar territory, as the sisters have already covered the Swell Season, Jason Mraz and Imogen Heap.
Not unlike fellow Canadians Justin Bieber, who went from YouTube fame to BIEBER fame, and Maria Aragon, who went from playing Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” in her living room to playing it atop the pop star’s lap at the Air Canada Centre, Lennon and Maisy seem poised for big thigs.
If you think this is just another example of some YouTube kids getting overhyped, save your judgment until you listen to a then seven-year-old Maisy cover Missy Higgins’s “Secret,” belting out lines like “And so we moved together like a ball and chain/ minds becoming two halves of the same,” with more soul than any first grader should be allowed to have.
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Listen to the Stellas on their CBC artist page