New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition

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New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition (Chinese: 新秀歌唱大賽多倫多選拔賽), or NTSA Toronto for short, is an annual singing contest organized by Fairchild Television in Toronto that selects the city's representative in the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals organized by TVB in Hong Kong.

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[edit] New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition 2008

The finals this year marks the 15th anniversary for the Toronto Audition and will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario. The slogan for this year's contest is "15載舞台飛躍 621越唱越強" ( 15 Years of Stage Vividness, 6/21 The More Sung The Stronger ). The Masters of Ceremonies this year include Fairchild Radio DJs Poon Chun-Ming, Mandy Chan and Miss Chinese Toronto 2005 Elva Ni. The special performing guest is cantopop singer and New Talent Singing Awards Hong Kong Regional Finals 2005 First Runner-Up Vincy Chan from Hong Kong.

[edit] Contestant list

Contestant Number English Name Chinese Name Placement
1 Mickey Zi 夏　子
2 Ada Lo 勞健詩
3 Nic Cheng 程　超
4 Zhao Liu 劉　釗
5 Angel Wang 王　倩
6 Bebo Li 李　昕
7 James Zhou 周于添
8 Steve Li 李　鑫
9 Selinda Zhou 周天嬌子
10 Sammi Chiao 喬于珊
11 Gary Kwong 鄺信銘
12 Andy Pan 潘　毅

[edit] Past Winners & notable contestants

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[edit] Winners chart

Year Contestant Contestant number Song Selection Placement
1994 Denise Ho 何韻詩 4 唯獨你是不可取替  ???
1997 Sunny Shum 岑恩鎏 7 發現 Winner
1999 Noella Choi 蔡瑋瑜 ?? My Heart Will Go On Winner
2000 Lisa Chow 周麗嘉 3 Saving All My Love For You Winner
2001 Jing Lu 盧婧 8 真情人 Winner
2002 Philip Wei 韋景堯 7 熱情的沙漠 Winner
2003 Yan Fung 馮智賢 14 輸了你贏了世界又如何 Winner
2004 Winona Xu 俆諾 9 ??? Winner
2005 Patrick Lau 劉柏村 8 愛與誠 Winner
2006 Bosco Lai 黎博灝 7 頭髮亂了 Winner
2007 Kenneth Wu 武海峰 8 愛不留 Winner

[edit] Contestant careers

  • 1997 Winner Sunny Shum 岑恩鎏 became a TV presenter for Fairchild TV hosted What's On from 1997 - 2000, MC in NTSA Toronto final in 2000..
  • 1999 Winner Noella Choi 蔡瑋瑜 went on to win the 2007 Ontario Independent Music Awards Best Female Award. She has also written music and provided vocals for songs featured in various TVB series including Steps and Dance of Passion. She has also released 2 albums.
  • 1999 Finalist Leo Siu 蕭嘉俊 hosted What's On from 2000 - 2004 and co-host NTSA Toronto in 2003. He is now a presenter for TVB's entertainment news channel.
  • 2000 Finalist Wingie Tsui 徐詠芝 is currently a DJ for Commercial Radio Hong Kong.
  • 2001 Winner Jing Lu 盧婧 Wrote several original songs and organized her own music band.
  • 2002 Winner Philip Wei 韋景堯 sang a featured number in the Disney Movie Chicken Little 四眼雞丁
  • 2003 Winner Yan Fung 馮智賢 held his debut concert, Getting Ready at the Ontario Science Centre in April, 2007.
  • 2004 Second Runner-Up Thomas Chong 莊子軒 now hosts What's On for Fairchild TV.
  • 2007 First Runner-Up Susanna Chan 陳銘莉 now hosts What's On for Fairchild TV.
  • 2007 Second Runner-Up Alan Ho 何偉圖 now hosts What's On for Fairchild TV.

[edit] Toronto success in NTSA International

Here is the list of Toronto representatives who have won awards in the NTSA International Finals.

  • Jing Lu 盧婧: NTSA International 2001 Second Runner-Up

[edit] NTSA Toronto 2007 flashing incident

Yumiko Cheng, special performing guest for the 2007 Finals, had a wardrobe malfunction when her tube dress slid down during her performance of a dance song; therefore exposing her nipples to the audience and cameras. During the incident, there were several close-ups of her from the waist up captured by television cameras that clearly displayed her unintentional flashing. Because the program was broadcasted live in Toronto, the entire performance was aired without censoring. However, when the program was aired on time delay in Vancouver three hours later, the entire song in which the incident has happened was edited out.

It was later explained by her manager, Mani Fok, that the reason for Yumiko's tube dress sliding down was due to the dress not being able to withhold the weight of the headphones receiver that Yumiko was wearing for her performance. Hence, the tube top started to slide down as Yumiko was dancing. When asked why Yumiko did not do more to secure her tubetop, Fok explained that the tube top was already secured by double-sided tape and that the receiver was also secured with duct tape upon clipping onto the tubetop. Further protection procedures would make the tube dress too tight for Yumiko to wear. [1]

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Special performing guests

Faichild TV would sometimes hire Asian singers or local artists to be the Special Guest(s) performing in the finals.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ News article regarding Yumiko's flashing incident. (In Chinese)

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