Mitch Tambo, A true-blue Australian indigenous artist, blended his gamilaraay language, didgeridoo, and traditional dance with contemporary beats and rhythms in an exhilarating modern day corroboree! Judge Nicole Scherzinger awarded him the golden buzzer that every performer is wishing for to the ongoing show, Australia’s Got Talent 2019.
It’s a fantastic finish for Australia for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. Former Australian X Factor Winner and now a successful recording artist, Dami Im has come second in the Eurovision song contest, wowing the crowd in Sweden with her performance of the song, Sound of Silence. With her Dami Army at her back including hundreds of students at her former school, John Paul College in Logan, south of Brisbane, leading the cheering, Dami Im stellar performance was definitely loved by 200 million fans of one of the biggest stage in the music industry.
Dami Im topped and dominated the jury votes consisting 50 per cent of the tally — and she was the clear favourite to win until the closing minutes of the competition with the public vote. A stirring song by Jamala from Ukraine ultimately won the contest with 534 points. Australia followed with 511 points.
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The Code premiered last night on ABC1 TV. This is a brand new Australian drama television series created and produced by Shelley Birse. A very compelling new six-hour drama filmed in Canberra featuring the iconic Australian Parliament House. Starring Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic, Adam Garcia, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Paul Tassone, Dan Wyllie, Lucy Lawless, Dan Spielman, Aden Young, and David Wenham.
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Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia’s outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, THE CODE tells the story of two very different brothers who unearth information that those at the highest levels of political power will kill to keep secret… Credits: ABC TV Australia
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Jeremy Yong is one of the most talented artists in this year’s Australia’s Got Talent 2012. He is only 8 years old. It so amazing that he can play the lead guitar of his favorite Rock Genre songs. When asked by Brian McFadden of what he wanted to be, Jeremy Yong smartly answered that he wanted to be a rockstar!
Well, he is a rockstar at his very young age. He is following the footstep of his dad who loves rocks music. On his Semi-Finals performance, he is playing Bon Jovi’s Livin’on A Prayer. Watch Jeremy Yong’s, now popularly known as “the Littlest Guitar Hero”, live performance. I hope he will make it to the Australias Got Talent 2012 Grand Finals that will be held in the next coming weeks. Don’t forget to vote for this young boy if you want to see him perform again.
Mitchell Thompson is 18 years of age, a singer-guitarist from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. On the other hand, Fatai Veamatahau is a young 16 year old devout Christian singer from Melbourne, Australia. She is extremely proud of her Tongan roots and beliefs.
It was a very difficult decision for Seal. In the end, he picked Fatai to go to the next round. Watch Fatai Veamatahau and Mitchell Thompson battle rounds performance video below.
The Voice Australia Fatai Veamatahau v Mitchell Thompson
Sydneysiders, are you watching The Voice? This is the new Australian reality talent show that premiered on the Nine Network last Sunday, 15 April 2012. It is basically a singing contest and the series consists of three phases: a blind audition, a battle phase, and live performance shows. The Voice has a world-class pool of mentors that includes Keith Urban, Delta Goodrem, Seal and Joel Madden.
Watching the Replay of the show last night, one performance is a standout. Karise Eden performed and sang “It’s A Man’s World” that brought The Voice Australia audience standing and the four mentors racing to press their red buttons. Karise Eden is from Woywoy in Sydney’s Central Coast. She is 19 years of age and has had a tougher life than most teenagers. Karise Eden was A State ward who grew up living in more than 20 refuges. This once very shy girl found music after being fostered to a loving family who owned a music store.
Karise Eden performance brought tears to her foster parents and surely touched the liveshow audience and television viewers. She is through to the next round and will be coached by Seal. Watch her performance below.
The Australian debate on pokie machines reforms goes on. The other day, a Catholic Priest and Youth Off The Streets CEO, Father Chris Riley announced that he is against the Gillard Government’s poker machine reforms. He was concerned that clubs would donate less money to charities if they were forced to install a pre-commitment system. He said that the government should focus on counseling and education. Read the news coverage here from Daily Telegraph.
Last month, SBS Insight Program, hosted a debate on Pokie Machine Reforms that included MP Andrew Wilkie on the panel and a number of Australian Clubs Managers. It was a very interesting debate! They discuss among others that Clubs are getting huge revenues but only give a small portion to the community. Watch the video below.
As a background, just after the election last year, Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie gave his support to the Labour government to put forward this agenda of poker machine reforms. Labor agreed to introduce mandatory per-commitment technology, requiring poker machine players to preset a limit on how much they plan to gamble on high-stakes poker machines.
Here’s a video that looks back to the journey of Sixteen year old Reece Mastin at the The X Factor Australia 2011, from the day of his audition until last night’s victory of winning the X factor Australia 2011 title and a recording contract .
Reece Mastin also shared his thoughts about his best and worst time at the competition. He said that the worst part was when he sang against Christina Parie, his best friend, in the competition. He has been one of the favorites to win the show after delivering flawless and strong performances night after night.
REECE MASTIN SINGING AREROSMITH’s CRYING FACTOR AUSTRALIA 2011 GRAND FINALS
When Emmanuel Kelly stepped into the audition stage of the X Factor Australia, he had no idea that he had embarked to an amazing journey. His original audition video of him singing Beatle’s John Lennon’s Classic, Imagine, had been watched by millions of viewers in Youtube. He has touched and inspired many lives with his story of survival.
Last night, Emmanuel Kelly performed with the Top 12 contestants of the X-factor AustraliaChannel 7. It was another beautiful performance and sure to attract probably millions of viewers worldwide. Watch the video below.
The moment we had been waiting for has come to an end. After 10 weeks of X Factor nights of live shows, Australia voted and have chosen the winner of the X- Factor Australia 2011. The votes were revealed and it was so close with only 1% separating the winner and the runner up.
