Calgary New Talent Singing Awards
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Fairchild TV
Fairchild TV or FTV is a Canadian Cantonese language Category A specialty channel. It is co-owned by majority owner Fairchild Media Group and Television Broadcasts Limited which owns 20% of the business...
and Fairchild Radio 94.7 FM in Alberta. It selects the Calgary candidate for the New Talent Singing Awards
New Talent Singing Awards
New Talent Singing Awards or NTSA for short, later re-organized into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals or NTSA International Finals for short), and most currently re-named TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship is an annual singing...
International Finals held in Hong Kong.
Alberta Audition to Calgary Contest to Calgary Audition
The contest was first established as New Talent Singing Awards Alberta Audition (Chinese: 新秀歌唱大賽亞省選拔賽) in 1996. The contest included contestants from both EdmontonEdmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
and Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
. However, since 2005, the contest was renamed to Calgary New Talent Singing Awards (Chinese: 卡加利新秀歌唱大賽), as FM 94.7 is based in Calgary. In 2009, the name changed again to its current one to match its Vancouver and Toronto counterparts.
New Talent Singing Awards Calgary Audition 2009
The finals was held on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in the EPCOR Centre for the Performing ArtsEPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts
The EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts is a multi-venue arts centre in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada, located in the Olympic Plaza Cultural District.-History:...
. The slogan for this year's contest is "唱出新勢力!" ( Singing out a New Force! ). The special performing guest is cantopop
Cantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...
singer and Tat Dik from Hong Kong.
Contestant list
| Contestant Number | English Name | Chinese Name | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Liao | 廖翊帷 | |
| 2 | Vivian Kong | 孔 昕 | Winner, Golden Voice Award |
| 3 | Christine Chan | 陳冠婷 | Best Fans Award |
| 4 | Crystal Jiang | 江 月 | |
| 5 | Cindy Ngo | 吳穎欣 | |
| 6 | Angel Li | 李 珦 | Second Runner-Up |
| 7 | Jay Wang | 王杰飛 | First Runner-Up, Best Emotional Performance Award |
| 8 | Roger Ho | 何子浩 |
Past winners
| Year | Contestant | Contestant Number | Song Selection | City Represented (until 2004) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | ??? | ?? | ??? | ??? |
| 1997 | ??? | ?? | ??? | ??? |
| 1998 | ??? | ?? | ??? | ??? |
| 1999 | Suk-Gwan Chan 陳淑君 | ?? | 藍天 | Calgary |
| 1999 | Amy Lin 林青蓉 | ?? | 自己 | Edmonton |
| 2000 | ' | ?? | 等愛降落 | Calgary |
| 2001 | Becky Lee 李君衍 | ?? | ??? | ??? |
| 2002 | Beverly Shih 史竹君 | 9 | 原來你什麼都不要 | Calgary |
| 2003 | Ronald Cheng 鄭卓恆 | ?? | ??? | ??? |
| 2004 | Anita Tong 唐可欣 | 8 | 剪愛 | Calgary |
| 2005 | Angela Zhang 張嘉妮 | 6 | 記得 | Calgary |
| 2006 | Albert Tung 董浚銘 | 4 | 聽海 | Calgary |
| 2007 | Belinda Chan 陳寶儀 | 7 | 讓我跟你走 | Calgary |
| 2008 | Jing Lu 陸 晶 | 8 | 手放開 | Calgary |
| 2009 | Vivian Kong 孔 昕 | 2 | ? | Calgary |
| 2010 | Danny Choi 蔡國強 | 4 | Cry | Calgary |
| 2011 | Ethan Huang 黃藝舟 | 9 | ? | Calgary |
Calgary success in NTSA International
- Jing Lu 陸晶: NTSA International 2008 Top 4 finalist
- Danny Choi 蔡國強: NTSA International 2010 Top 8 finalist
See also
- New Talent Singing AwardsNew Talent Singing AwardsNew Talent Singing Awards or NTSA for short, later re-organized into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals or NTSA International Finals for short), and most currently re-named TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship is an annual singing...
- New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver AuditionNew Talent Singing Awards Vancouver AuditionNew Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition or NTSA Vancouver for short, is an annual singing contest organized by Fairchild Television in Vancouver, held every July...
- New Talent Singing Awards Toronto AuditionNew Talent Singing Awards Toronto AuditionNew Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition , 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.-New Talent Singing Awards...
- CHKF-FMCHKF-FMCHKF-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts multicultural content, including a major Chinese programming block entitled Fairchild Radio at 94.7 FM in Calgary, Alberta...
, the organizer FM 94.7 in Calgary
Special Performing Guests
Faichild TV would sometimes hire Asian singers or local artists to be the Special Guest(s) performing in the finals.- 2007 Enrico Kwong 鄺祖德
- 2008 Vincy ChanVincy ChanVincy Chan is a Hong Kong cantopop singer. Before the handover of 1997 when Hong Kong was returned from Great Britain to China, her family left Hong Kong and went to Singapore when she was a child. She was signed by Emperor Entertainment Group, and debuted with the album Vincy on 27 July 2006.She...
泳兒 - 2009 Det Tik, JJ Jia 狄易達, 賈曉晨