And the winners are.....
The fans have spoken, and the grand prize winners of Sing!, a national vocal talent competition designed to shine the spotlight on choirs, choruses, gospel singers, glee clubs, vocal groups and soloists, have been selected. With hundreds of thousands of votes generated online, Encore! was chosen as the country’s favorite Sing! vocal group and Brandi Alden was selected as the soloist winner. Encore! performed live at Deer Park Town Center in Deer Park, Illinois during the competition and Brandi Alden performed live at Birkdale Village in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Big Prizes!
Both the winning group and soloist will receive thousands of dollars in prizes, as well as personal, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to work with Emmy® Award-winning singer/songwriter Kevin Briody. Encore! will receive a prize package of $5,000 in DDR MasterCard gift cards and a $20,000 donation to their chosen charity, the Lauri Bauer Foundation for Sudden Loss. Brandi Alden will receive a $5,000 donation to her chosen charity, Levine Children’s Hospital, as well as $2,500 in DDR MasterCard gift cards.
About Sing!
Soloists and vocal groups started by completing an online entry form and uploading an original audio performance of a song. Participating shopping centers selected semi-finalists by online popular vote. These semi-finalists performed LIVE at their local DDR Corp. shopping center. Each pool of semifinalists was narrowed to three by a panel of local judges and audience text voting.
Video recordings of the top three live group and soloist performances from each shopping center were posted online for a popular vote to decide the finalists. The finalists will compete online from noon EST on Tuesday, October 18 through noon EST on Monday, October 31. The Grand Prize Winner will be determined by this final round of online voting.
