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SPOP Sing! (season 1)
''SPOP Sing!'' () is a Chinese singing reality competition broadcast by Mediacorp Channel 8. Season 1 premiered on 9 August after the broadcast of National Day Parade and ended on the live finale on 4 November at Padang. During the live finals, 18-year-old Singapore Polytechnic student Jarrell Huang (17 at the time of his audition) was announced the winner of ''SPOP Sing!'', and 21-year-old LASALLE College of the Arts student Marcus Tay was declared as a runner-up. Development The show was first revealed to the public on 22 April 2018 during the broadcast of ''Star Awards 2018'' with a teaser clip uploaded to Toggle, aimed to promote the Chinese culture, the music genre of mandopop and xinyao, and paying tribute to local singing talents of Singapore. This is also the first S-Pop themed competition in more than a decade, since ''SPOP Hurray!'' in 2008. The grand prize for winning ''SPOP Sing!'' is a cash prize of S$30,000, and the winner's own debut single, titled "逆风飞翔 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2018
Star Awards 2018 (also SA2018SG, Chinese: 红星大奖2018) is a television award ceremony which is held in Singapore, with the Post Party and Ceremony Awards was broadcast live on 22 April 2018. A total of 15 awards were handed out during the ceremony, among which the Special Achievement Award, an award given out to a celebrity in recognition to meritorious contribution, returned after a 15-year absence, with the award last presented in 2003, in the place of All-Time Favourite Artiste, which was not presented this year, and the third ceremony overall, after 2007 and 2013. The ceremony saw '' When Duty Calls'' winning the most awards, '' The Lead'' was the second-biggest winning drama serial, clinching the two other major categories plus Young Talent award, for a total of three. Seven other programs won at least one award during the ceremony. Programme details Awards On 5 April 2018, the Creative Achievement Awards was held to recognise the achievements of Mediacorp's crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITE College Central
ITE College Central (ITECC) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. It is one of the Institute of Technical Education's three colleges under the "One ITE System, Three Colleges" Governance and Education Model. The college also houses the headquarters of the Institute of Technical Education. Campus Covering a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m2, the campus opened to its first cohort of students in January 2013. The campus was officially opened on 8 November that year by then Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The Tay Eng Soon Convention Centre was named after Tay Eng Soon to commemorate his ministerial service in the Ministry of Education (MOE), who spearheaded the development of polytechnics and institutes for technical training in Singapore. Then Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave his National Day Rally speech at the Tay Eng Soon Convention Centre from 2013 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campus SuperStar
''Campus SuperStar'' is a Singaporean reality television singing competition to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. The show began on 2 January 2006 and is broadcast on MediaCorp Channel U. It is a spin-off of ''Project SuperStar'', and contestants comprise students from secondary schools, junior colleges and institutes of technical education. The concept of the series is to find aspiring singers studying in secondary schools, junior colleges and institutes of technical education and put them together to compete for the ''Campus SuperStar'' title where the winner is determined by the judges and viewers. Winners chosen by judges through judges' score and viewers through telephone, Internet (gift-to-vote), and SMS text voting were Ng Chee Yang, Shawn Tok, Jarod Lee and Bonnie Loo. Winners receive a two-year management contract with MediaCorp and a cash prize ( $2,000 for season 1–3, and $5000 for season 4). Season 4 winner als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene Koong
Serene Koong (born 21 September 1988) is a Singaporean singer, songwriter and producer. She is a three time Global Chinese Golden Chart Award, three time Singapore Hit Awards, Star Awards 20, Star Awards winner, and Asian Academy Creative Awards National Winner. Career 2010-2013 In May 2010, Koong released her debut Mandarin album, ''55:38:7'', composed of ten original compositions. Her single "明知我愛你" peaked at number 3 on YES 933 醉心龙虎榜. The single was nominated for Best Local Composition at the 2010 Singapore Hit Awards; Koong received four nominations total and won the Most Popular Newcomer award and the Meritorious Newcomer award. Koong was also involved in song production for television series and films with "在我左右" for Mediacorp Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), Channel 8's television series New Beginnings (2010 TV series), ''New Beginnings'' and "手中线" for the film ''Love Cuts'' starring Zoe Tay and Kenny Ho. Same year, Koong had filmed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YES 933
YES 933 is a Mandarin Chinese radio station in Singapore. Owned by the state-owned broadcaster Mediacorp, it primarily broadcasts a contemporary hit radio format focusing on Chinese and Korean pop music. The station has historically been one of the most listened to in Singapore; in a 2024 survey, Nielsen reported that the station had an average of 1.1 million listeners. History In December 1989, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) announced plans for two new radio stations to launch in 1990, in honour of SBC's 10th anniversary and Singapore's 25th anniversary of independence; a Mandopop CHR station on 93.3 (which would serve as a Chinese counterpart to English CHR Perfect 10, which launched earlier that year), and an unnamed "MOR" station on 95.5. The Mandopop station launched on 1 January 1990 as YES 933, also known as Radio 6; at launch, the station had nine deejays on four-to-five-hour shifts, and aired fewer commercials than that of Radio 3. YES 933 began as an 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boon Hui Lu
Boon Hui Lu (born 11 December 1993) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress. Early life and education Boon was born on December 11, 1993, in Singapore to a self-employed courier provider father and a housewife. Boon studied at Anglican High School. While studying at the Victoria Junior College, Boon had joined the school choir as she knew "she wanted to sing professionally". In 2015, she graduated from Nanyang Technological University's Nanyang Business School with an Accountancy degree. She was offered a job at a big accounting firm but had turned it down to pursue her music dreams. Career Boon started her career as a child actress. She won the Star Awards for Young Talent for her role in the television drama ''Rhapsody in Blue'' in 2006. In 2012, she represented Singapore in the popular Taiwanese reality TV singing competition ''Million Star''. She also participated in the Channel 5 reality TV singing competition '' The Final 1'' (2013) and was among the top 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Dong
Joanna Dong Ziyan (; born 15 November 1981 in Singapore) is a Singaporean singer, actress and host. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she is the first artiste signed to Singapore label, Red Roof Records. Early life and education The only child of divorced parents, her initial forays into the world of entertainment came in the 1980s when her mother, a former Chinese teacher, started entering her into karaoke competitions, many of which she won. After attending The Raffles Girls' School and Victoria Junior College, she graduated from the National University of Singapore with honours in sociology. Career Music She first came into the public eye when she joined the first-ever Singapore Idol competition in 2004 and reached the Top 40. Six months after exiting the talent competition, Joanna began pursuing a music career in earnest, landing her first regular singing gig in The Courtyard at Raffles Hotel. A featured performer with major local groups such as the Singapore Symphony Orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Hartono
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Sing! China
''Sing! China'' (; formerly ) is a Chinese singing competition television series broadcast on Zhejiang Television. It is produced by Star (CM) Holdings Ltd. It premiered during the summer on 15 July 2016. It is a re-branded version of ''The Voice of China'', a show based on the original ''The Voice of Holland''. It has aired seven seasons and aims to find new singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, aged 18 or older (16 or older in seasons one and two), drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by live audience voting by SMS text. They receive a record deal with various labels for winning the competition. Winners of the past seven seasons have been: Jiang Dunhao (蒋敦豪), Tashi Phuntsok (扎西平措), Tenzin Nyima (旦增尼玛), Xing Hanming (邢晗铭), Shan Yichun (单依纯), Wu Keyue (伍珂玥), and Sumi Liang (梁玉莹). The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recording Contract
A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote. Artists under contract are normally only allowed to record for that label exclusively; guest appearances on other artists' records will carry a notice "By courtesy of (the name of the label)", and that label in question may receive a percentage of sales through publishing. Copyrights, payment and royalties Labels typically own the copyright in the records their artists make, and also the master copies of those records. An exception is when a label makes a distribution deal with an artist; in this case, the artist, their manager, or another party may own the copyright (and masters), while the record is licensed exclusively to the label for a set period of time. Promotion is a key factor in the success of a record, and is largel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsiao Huang-chi
Hsiao Huang-chi (; born 22 September 1976), also known as Ricky Hsiao, is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter and former judoka ( 2nd dan black belt). He represented Taiwan in FESPIC Games in Beijing in 1994, where he won the bronze title and placed seventh at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. Hsiao gained attention in the Taiwanese Hokkien pop scene after winning the Best Male Vocalist – Taiwanese award at the 19th Golden Melody Awards in 2008. Biography Hsiao had congenital cataracts which led him to his blindness at birth, which was partially cured by surgery when he was 4. However his vision gradually deteriorated, and he completely lost his eyesight at age 15. Hsiao played basketball in school and trained to the 2nd dan black belt level in judo, becoming a part of Taiwan's national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 FESPIC Games in Beijing before competing in the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta. His music career began in 2002 with the release of his first album. Hsiao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
