Robert Lim — MR (Mister)

What’s your talent?
Rob and I are going to try to entertain the Chan Centre by making weird sound effects with our mouths. It’ll be a beatbox collaboration with a bit of freestyle rapping and the aid of a panflute and harmonica.

How did you learn your talent?
I think that I first started beatboxing in math class just for fun. I think that vocal percussion is really a great way to showcase what can be drawn from the widely ranged colour palettes of the human voice. The best thing about it, is that it’s a percussive instrument that you will always have with you.

Siri Williams

What’s your talent?
I’m a singer and I’ll be rocking out to some epic Queen radness.

How do you plan to warm up for a performance for 1000 people?
Booze. Just kidding. Lots of water, tea and…yeah, okay, maybe a little booze. Just a little.

Jeremiah Carag

What’s your talent?
I have been singing for a while now but mostly just in front of friends and family. My genre of choice is music from theatre musicals but I also dabble in R&B and Jazz.

How did you learn your talent?
As a Filipino, singing has always been an important part of our culture. I always say in jest that I must have learned to sing before I even started walking. You can probably imagine me reaching out for the karaoke microphone before I can even talk. I never had any formal vocal training but I always try to sing whenever I can.

Jun Yim – Unlimited Crew

What’s your talent?
A choreography piece that tells a story of a boy who learns not to trust a woman so easily. Despite the sweet and happy beginning of boy meets girl, the girl, through seduction, is tempted to betray her partner. The story may be generic, but hopefully the dance itself will keep our audience engaged in the telling of.

How do you plan to warm up for a performance in front of 1000 people?
Unlimited will train as diligently as possible throughout the week leading up to the show.

Faisal Al-Alamy

What’s your talent?
My performance is a debut of my band’s [The Faze Project] single, called Creme Fraiche (based on the South Park episode).

How did you learn your talent?
Music never really existed where I’m from. Saudi Arabia’s music scene was beyond underground. Guitar never really became a part of my life until one day—sitting in class—my teacher picked up a guitar and started playing “From a Distance”—I still am a sucker to that song. My fifth guitar lesson in I asked my teacher if I could play Stairway to Heaven and he just laughed, he gave me the tabs sheet for it, the next week I came in and nailed it—that’s when I discovered, through him, that I may have a talent somewhere!

Erin Crockett

What’s Your Talent?
On Friday, I will be taking to the stage with a solo piano performance based on Michael Kaeshammer’s arrangement of a song called the “Boogie-Woogie Stomp,” originally written by Albert Ammons. So what’s boogie-woogie? It’s a lively, upbeat style of music of piano-based blues featuring a driving left hand with decorative melody in the right hand.

How did you learn your talent?
From an early age, I began taking classical piano lessons once a week. Several years later, when I was introduced to my first 12-bar blues, I became hooked on the free flowing, creative nature of blues and jazz. I learned this particular piece by listening to a recording of Kaeshammer’s arrangement of “Boogie-Woogie Stomp.” As I developed some fluency in the style of boogie-woogie, I began to incorporate some of my own musical ideas into the song.

Michelle Kwan – Pentatonics

What’s your talent?
We are a Chinese instrumental band called Pentatonics consisting of nine musicians. Rather than playing traditional Chinese music, Pentatonics uses Chinese instruments to play mainstream music such as pop, rock, cross-over classical and many more. The instruments we play include erhu, dizi, guzheng, pipa, ruan, yangqin, drumset and keyboard.

How did you learn to play?
Like most kids, our parents made us learn the instruments when we were little. We were all classically trained on our instruments and, recently, we wanted to do something different and more exciting. So we decided to form a group which incorporates Chinese instruments and Western instruments to play music that is more mainstream.
Pauline Kong

What are you performing?
I will be performing my signature act, Fate’s Parasol Manipulation Act.

How did you learn your talent?
Magic is one of my passions and it is something I want to pursue. I take magic classes to help me follow my dream. I not only wanted to make a difference in someone’s life by being a nurse, but also by being a magician.

How do you plan to warm up for a performance in front of 1000 people?
I practice my magic through shows that I perform in the hospital and at different kinds of parties including baby showers, birthday parties and in other competitions.

Abrielle Chan – The X Guys

What’s your talent?
We are an all-men’s a capella group.

How did you form?
Most of us came from the same high school, Magee Secondary. Some of us were in the chamber choir. Most of us have only been singing for approximately two years.

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