Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Digicel Stars enters semi-finals

By SAO HOIRE

The Digicel Stars singing competition is taking the country by storm and getting tougher as it winds down to the grand finale next month.
Digicel Stars elimination round two contestants awaiting the final judges word during the show’s live recording at POMCC last week
 With two elimination rounds already gone, everyone is in suspense as to who will win the title and walk away with the prize money of K10, 000 plus a recording contract.
The winner from elimination round two, Greg Aaron from rainy Lae, gave a hyped-up, mind-blowing performance as he belted out a country number from Keith Urban, Love Somebody during the live performance at Port Moresby Country Club (POMCC) last Wednesday.
The song got the audience roaring with excitement and even a guitarist up on stage in an impromptu performance which won the judges’ hearts to announce him the winner on the night.
Elimination round one winner, Joseph Normou, also from Lae was the judges’ choice with two viewers’ choice winners announced: Christopher Cobb who sang a number from Outfield and boy group Leo from Lae.
Viewers’ choice winners were submitted through SMS votes so keep voting for your favourite Digicel star to 1699.
For each round, only two successful contestants will be selected by the viewers to move forward.
“It has been a pleasure to watch and listen to all the wonderful singing and acting talent that is out there,” said Digicel PNG CEO John Mangos.
“Digicel Stars is now entering its final and most exciting stages and we are looking forward to even more talent being shown as the contestants will be pushed to show their very best performances.
“We give our best wishes to all the contestants as you are all winners to have made it this far in the competition.
The Digicel Stars semi-finals will be aired on EMTV on Sunday at 6.30pm with six contestants to compete for a place in the finals.
A total of 16 contestants made it through to the elimination rounds.
Dec 5 will see a showcase performance by the contestants with the grand finale to be on Dec 12.
So keep voting for your favourite star to the short code ‘1699’.
For example, vote for Hanley by texting ‘Hanley’ to 1699.
Hanley Logoso belting out his version of Guy Sebastian’s ‘Attention’ song that got the crowd roaring during the elimination
By voting, you can also win great prizes.
There will be K1, 000 free credits to be given away each week as well as 50 lucky SMS voters will win K50 free credits each.

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