Twenty-four-year-old Australian-born Sheldon Lo (羅孝勇) took the gold award home for the 2012 New Talent Singing Championship, hosted by TVB’s Mandarin-language channel, TVB8.
The International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship was held at TVB City on September 29. Thirteen contestants hailing from Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand competed in front of a panel of judges to win the chance to earn a music contract with various record labels in Hong Kong.
The contestants went through a total of four rounds. The first round required the contestants to perform their own chosen songs, and five of them were eliminated. In the second round, the remaining eight contestants competed against each other, and half were eliminated. On the third round, the four contestants competed against one of the five judges, which included singers Ivana Wong (王菀之), Hanjin Tan (陳奐仁), Tan Vui Chuan (陳威全), Elisa Chan (陳潔靈), Justin Lo (側田), and Steve Wong (黃家強). On the final round, the remaining two competitors went against each other by performing a difficult song hand-picked by the organizers. These songs included Hanjin Tan and MC Jin’s No Time for Regrets <沒時間後悔>, Justin Lo’s Hard Life <命硬>, Ivana Wong’s Water Lilies <水百合>, Tan Vui Chuan’s I Love Him <我愛他>, and Steve Wong’s The Cries from Afar <遠方的哭泣>.
King Kong (金剛), Paisley Wu (胡蓓蔚), and Auston Lam (林師傑) were the presenters for this year’s competition. Kim Ja Yong (金子永), winner of the 2012 CMB Chin Chin Singing Competition of South Korea, also attended the New Talent Singing Championship as a guest performer.
Hong Kong representative and gold prize winner, Sheldon Lo, had already caught the attention of the Hong Kong public in 2010, after winning third place in 2010’s The Voice 2 <超級巨聲2>. Viewers and judges were most impressed with Sheldon’s own composition, Speechless, which he performed in the final round of competition in The Voice 2. However, it was his performance of OneRepublic’s Apologize that won him the third place titleholder.
Silver prize winner was 24-year-old Wang Yinglong (王應龍), from Sichuan, China. Bronze holder was 22-year-old Emily Hui (許家欣) from Toronto, Canada.
Source: ihktv.com
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Ah ha, congrats Sheldon! I always like him from The Voice 2 although Mag has a deserved victory. Like the I’m your version of Sheldon and Jay Fung, too. I hope after signing with Music Plus, both of them will have good career like Mag is doing.
he can’t sing!! but i’m not surprised he won because 2 of the judges were from The Voice 2!!
some what un-fair competition.
agree
should brush up his mandarin. china and taiwan market is huge
Wow, congrats to Emily Hui from Toronto!
He was clearly not the best among the final contestants if not the worst among them. Yet, he came out on top because like all competitions coming from Hong Kong, it’s rigged. They should just feed us the results next time instead of showing us the competition and how undeserving the winner is.
I watched a part of it and I have to agree with the other commenters..he definitely was NOT the best amongst all the contestants. It was pretty obvious that the contest was rigged because he thanked TVB for all the opportunities.
Aside from singing english songs with a nasaly voice, I really do not find him NOR Mag Lam very likeable as artists.
Yay for Sheldon! He’s a good singer! Can’t wait to hear more from him, but the joining EEG thing with Mag, makes me sad. I’d prefer Sheldon with Stephanie Ho!
Ok, Sheldon is a decent singer, but not THAT great. His voice is quite nice, but nothing too outstanding. I didn’t watch this yet, so it might be unfair for me to judge…but I did watch the entire The Voice 2, and I think he has a lot of room for improvement.
For this contest, Hubert Wu also from The Voice 2 represented HK last year and he also won. I thought Hubert really deserved the win, but this time, I think it’s just rigged.
By the way, congrats to Emily Hui from Toronto!
Also agree that the competition was very unfair. None of his performances were that exemplary, but the judges kept singling him out for praise. In my opinion, the judges made a huge mistake during the final battle round, when they picked that girl from Sichuan over the guy from Australia. That guy was the best singer of the entire competition by far. The guy who won silver was decent, but he seemed to mumble too much.
@Eunice, I agree! Hubert was the clear winner last year. I also thought that all the contestants from last year sang much better.
what about last year who won ?
Omg he can’t sing. Tvb award shows have no credibility anymore.
Tvb just want to make him another star. Irving him lots of air time in different programs like dolce vita, kids shows, weekend shows.
Untalented but family has money.