Just to prove my point...
The same day this solo girl's site went up, I bought a domain and set up a very simple Word Press blog. The only SEO I did was set post links to be
www.domain.com/post-name and I made sure to plug the girl's name in every single post name. A sitemap was also added, which pings Google every time it's updated.
I started off in the second page of results. I forgot about it until this morning when I checked again and I was the 8th result. I just checked again and my site is the second and third result when you look up that specific girl's name.
So there you have it. SEO is a bunch of bullshit.