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

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in Toronto that selects the city's representative in the

New Talent Singing Awards New Talent Singing Awards (Traditional Chinese: 新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA'' for short, later re-organised into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals (Traditional Chinese: 全球華人新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA International Fina ...

International Finals organized by

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in Hong Kong.

New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition 2009

The finals this year was held on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at

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. The slogan for this year's contest is "620 歌樂蜚聲Wonderland" ( June 20: Music All Around Wonderland ). The Masters of Ceremonies this year include

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DJs Poon Chun-Ming, Leo Shiu and

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2005 Elva Ni. The special performing guest was

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group

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from Hong Kong. This year also included a band competition called e-Rock Band Competition and had 3 competitors.

Contestant list (Solo)

Contestant list (e-Rock band)

Past Winners & notable contestants

Winners chart

Contestant careers

*1997 Winner Sunny Shum 岑恩鎏 became a TV presenter for

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hosted What's On from 1997 - 2000, MC in NTSA Toronto final in 2000.. *1997 First Runner-Up & Golden Voice Award winner Sandy Sun 孫小珊 is currently a DJ for Fairchild Radio in Toronto. *1998 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

series including '' Steps'' and '' Dance of Passion''. She has also released 2 albums. *1999 Winner Leo Siu 蕭嘉俊 hosted What's On from 2000 - 2004 and co-host NTSA Toronto in 2003. He was also a presenter for

's entertainment news channel for a while during his time in 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

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四眼雞丁. Philip is now signed to Star Entertainment (HK). On August 7, 2009 Philip (known to the public as 韋雄 Weixiong) released his debut mini-album "Romance." *2003 Winner Yan Fung 馮智賢 held his debut concert, ''Getting Ready'' at the

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in April, 2007. Yan was signed to BanBan Music (the roster of which includes Kay Tse). *2003 First Runner-Up June Tang 鄧芷茵 is now signed to Star Entertainment (HK). *2004 Second Runner-Up Thomas Chong 莊子軒 now hosts What's On for Fairchild TV. *2004 Finalist "Ivan Chan 陳廣偉 a.k.a. Jason Chan (陳柏宇)" is now signed to Sony BMG Hong Kong *2006 Winner Bosco Lai is now working as a senior analyst at Macquarie in Houston, Texas. He has now begun a career in country music karaoke. *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 is back at HK

Toronto success in NTSA International

Here is a Toronto representative who have won awards in the NTSA International Finals. * Jing Lu 盧婧: NTSA International 2001 Second Runner-Up * Emily Hui 許家欣: NTSA International 2012 Second Runner-Up

NTSA Toronto 2007 flashing incident

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, special performing guest for the 2007 Finals, had a

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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 broadcast live in

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, the entire performance was aired without censoring. However, when the program was aired on time delay in

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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 withstand 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.News article regarding Yumiko's flashing incident. (In Chinese)
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Trivia

*2001 First Runner-Up Candy Leung 梁敏菁 was a finalist at the NTSA Hong Kong Regional Finals in 2000. *2006 Finalist Danielle Li 李東妮 entered

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in 2005 and made it to the semi-finals. *2007 Finalist Angela Zhang 張嘉妮 entered and won

Calgary New Talent Singing Awards New Talent Singing Awards (Traditional Chinese: 新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA'' for short, later re-organised into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals (Traditional Chinese: 全球華人新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA International Fina ...

in 2005 and represented

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in the NTSA International Finals that year.

Special performing guests

Faichild TV would sometimes hire Asian singers or local artists to be the Special Guest(s) performing in the finals. *2000 Gabriel Harrison 海俊傑, Halina Tam 譚小環 *2001 Fei Fei Ding 丁菲飛, Hei Wong 王喜 *2002 Anthony Wong 黃耀明 *2003

Jade Kwan Kwan Wai-Man (born 31 July 1979), better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin (), is a Cantopop singer and philanthropist based in Hong Kong. Originally from Vancouver, she entered the music industry after winning the 1999 New Talent Singin ...

關心妍 *2004

Denise Ho Denise Ho Wan-see (born 10 May 1977) is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer and actress. She is also a pro-democracy and Hong Kong human rights activist. In 2012, Ho came out as lesbian, the first mainstream Cantonese singer to do so. In 2014, Ho ...

何韻詩 *2005

Ella Koon Ella Koon Yun-na (born 9 July 1979) is a former Hong Kong Cantopop singer and semi-retired actress. Biography Ella Koon was born in the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, and is of Hakka descent. She was raised in Hong Kong and attended high sch ...

官恩娜 *2006

Janice Vidal Janice M. Vidal (born 13 April 1982) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer of mixed Filipino and Korean descent. Vidal was first discovered by music producer Mark Lui and initially began her career as a back-up singer for Leon Lai. She debuted as a s ...

衛蘭 *2007

鄭希怡 *2008

Vincy Chan Vincy Chan (born 16 October 1982) is a Hong Kong-Singaporean Cantopop singer. She began her singing career after winning 1st runner up at the 2005 New Talent Singing Awards and has since been signed with Emperor Entertainment Group. Her best known ...

泳兒 *2009

Soler (band) Soler is a Hong Kong-based rock duo originally from Macau formed by twin brothers Julio Acconci (vocals/bass) and Dino Acconci (vocals/guitar), Soler made their Hong Kong debut in early 2005. Biography Julio and Dino Acconci were born on 9 Se ...

*2010

Pong Nan Nan Yik-Pong, better known by his stage name Pong Nan (; born 15 May 1978), is a Cantopop musician, singer-songwriter and actor in Hong Kong of Hakka ancestry. Life and career 1978–2004: Early life and career beginnings In 1989, amid mass ...

藍奕邦 *2011 敖嘉年, 鄧小巧 *2012 周柏豪 *2013 Shine *2014 張繼聰

References

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External links

New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition Official Website
Toronto audition Music of Toronto Music competitions in Canada