The music industry has always had three paradigms: You can take somebody who looks great and sounds great and you make them a star. You can take someone who looks great, but can't sing and engineer their vocals and make them a star. Or you can take someone who sounds great, but looks so-so and work on their image until they become a star.

Enter the Notorious William Hung. The celebrated "American Idol" reject is on the verge of being made into a star specifically because he neither sounds, nor looks the part.

On Wednesday night (Feb. 18), Fuse music network and Koch Entertainment surprised Hung with the offer of a record contract and music video production deal.

The University of California, Berkeley civil engineering major had just completed a performance of "She Bangs" at halftime of the UC Berkeley men's volleyball game when the offer was presented. If Hung accepts the deal, he will receive a check for $25,000, a deal with Koch and a music video for his first single, which will air on Fuse.

"As the underdog music video network, Fuse instantly identified with William's drive to do his best and 'have no regrets at all,'" says the network's president Marc Juris. "Every one of us is joyfully guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with wild abandon, all the while completely off key and uninhibited. That's what William did and instantly won the hearts of America."

Hung gained his extended measure of fame after his San Francisco audition for FOX's reality juggernaut "American Idol." While his performance of the Ricky Martin hit "She Bangs," may not have suggested that Hung had any future as a singer or dancer, his reaction to judge Simon Cowell's sarcastic barbs showed humility and humanity.

He has become the subject of countless websites and has made many public appearances as a result. His "Idol" rendition of "She Bangs" is available on the Internet in several different remixed forms.