New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition


New 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 Toronto Audition 2009

The finals this year was held on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario. The slogan for this year's contest is "620 歌樂蜚聲Wonderland". The Masters of Ceremonies this year include Fairchild Radio DJs Poon Chun-Ming, Leo Shiu and Miss Chinese Toronto 2005 Elva Ni. The special performing guest was cantopop group Soler from Hong Kong. This year also included a band competition called e-Rock Band Competition and had 3 competitors.

Past Winners & notable contestants

Contestant careers

  • 1997 Winner Sunny Shum 岑恩鎏 became a TV presenter for Fairchild TV 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 TVB 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 TVB'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 Chicken Little 四眼雞丁. Philip is now signed to Star Entertainment. On August 7, 2009 Philip released his debut mini-album "Romance."
  • 2003 Winner Yan Fung 馮智賢 held his debut concert, Getting Ready at the Ontario Science Centre in April, 2007. Yan was signed to BanBan Music.
  • 2003 First Runner-up June Tang 鄧芷茵 is now signed to Star Entertainment.
  • 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 " 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-upEmily Hui 許家欣: NTSA International 2012 Second Runner-up

NTSA Toronto 2007 flashing incident

Yumiko Cheng, special performing guest for the 2007 Finals, had a wardrobe malfunction 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 Toronto, the entire performance was aired without censoring. However, when the program was aired on time delay in Vancouver 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.

Trivia

Special performing guests

Faichild TV would sometimes hire Asian singers or local artists to be the Special Guest performing in the finals.