CONGRATS TO ALL OF OUR WINNERS

AND A BIG THANKS

TO ALL OF OUR CONTESTANTS

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR 2013

Lauren Barnes

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR

VOTERS CHOICE WINNER

Tyler Koch

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR KIDS 2013

Brooke Leinbaugh

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR 2013

1ST RUNNER UP WINNERS

Amber Silva

Vanessa Carr

Amber & Ashlee Logan

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR 2013

PRODUCER'S PICK

William Hang 

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR KIDS 2013

1ST RUNNER UP WINNER

Zyaire Ford

THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING TO RAISE

$13,000.00 

FOR CMN BEAUMONT KIDS

THANKS TO DCTV

TOMMY MORRIS

Over 25,000 viewers watched

LIVE

The National Singing Star Awards Finale

DETROIT SINGING STAR COMPETITION

AWARDS FINALE AT ANDIAMOS

WILL BE BROADCASTING LIVE ON DCTV

DetroitCityTV Founded in 2007 is "Detroit's First Internet TV Broadcast Network" producing or supporting over 400 live music and concert events featuring National and Local artists.

DCTV specializes in producing live real time entertainment, sports and music events viewed on www.DetroitCity.TV by an audience to date of over 35 million people world wide.

Live Broadcast Link:

View the live broadcast simply by going to www.DetroitCity.TV and clicking National Singing Star tab.

https://www.DetroitCity.TV/National_Singing_Star.html

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NATIONAL SINGING STAR AWARDS FINALE 

WELCOMES SPECIAL GUESTS:

MARTHA REEVES

Martha Reeves (of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) found fame in the 1960s with a string of hit singles on Motown's Gordy label. Founded in 1960 by friends Annette Beard, Rosalind Ashford and Gloria Williams, the band eventually included Martha Reeves, who moved up in ranks as lead vocalist of the group after Williams' departure in 1962. The group signed with and eventually recorded all of their singles for Motown's Gordy imprint.  The group's string of hits included "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave", "Nowhere to Run", "Jimmy Mack", "Bless You" and "Dancing in the Street", the latter song becoming their signature single. During their nine-year run on the charts from 1963 to 1972, Martha and the Vandellas charted over twenty-six hits and recorded in the styles of doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues, rock and roll and soul. Ten Vandellas songs reached the top ten of the Billboard R&B singles chart, including two R&B number ones.

THE REFLECTIONS

This group of highly talented performers hails from the Motor City of Detroit. During the British Invasion of the sIxties, they were one of the few vocal groups to land a string of top selling hits. Their first multi-million hit (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet topped the charts in 1964. And in quick sucession, they continued to dominate the charts with top 40 hits. "Poor Man's Son", "Shabby Little Hut" and "Just Like Columbus". Dick Clark mentored The Reflections early years with apperances on American Bandstand and included them on his many Caravan of Stars bus tours nationwide. Terry Stewart, the President and CEO of the Cleveland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was quoted as saying, "The beauty of all this is that The Reflections have never gone away. In fact, most would say that they've only gotten better. In short, let me put it another way. These guys could sing the phone book and bring the house down. All of us at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum love these fellows and we are proud to call them family." Today, they continue to tour the country with some of the greatest names in rock n' roll history.

Julie

It was a real pleasure meeting you last nite.
You did a great job keeping the show togeather with the judging.
We were proud to be a small part of this rewarding event.

Gary The Reflections

FINALISTS:

One more competition

to get to the AWARDS FINALE!!

Thank you for lending your voice to the National Singing Star Competition. Your competition will be performing in one of the

FINALS SHOWCASES

Sunday November 3

or

Monday November 4th

at BEAUMONT AUDITORIUM

Finalist selected for the awards finale will be announced at the conclusion of each showcase.  We will not know judges and voters result until the end of the showcase. You will be receiving an email ANNOUNCEMENT to forward to your family and friends! Admission is $10 at the door, and promises to be a fun and entertaining show of spectacular performances. (each contestant gets a comp ticket for significant other or parents)

While donations to CMN at Beaumont Children's Hospital is APPRECIATED, it is not mandatory. However, like most television competitions, it is only fair to base scoring, not only on JUDGES opinions, but on the popular vote as well. So it is important to bring your cheering, voting crowd. Hope your crowd cheers loud enough to influence judges and hope your crowd is generous in their donating votes for you. Continue to use your vote ticket sales sheet to collect donation money if you want, but again it is not mandatory. Additional prize packages including cash, gifts and trophy, will be given to contestants with the highest number of voting donations compliments of National Singing Star and Beaumont Children's Hospital.

You must E-Mail your music track to Debi for your FINALS SHOWCASE. The song you choose MUST be approved by Debi BEFORE the showcase. Showing up with a song she doesn't know or that she hasn't heard will not be permitted. There will be CHILDREN present, and songs with inappropriate messaging or content will not be accepted. It is in your best interest to DRESS appropriately, sing a crowd pleasing favorite and PERFORM with confidence. Debi will be sending you an email this week with information regarding PERFORMANCE and best tips for showcasing your TALENT.

Contestants with the highest scores (75%) judges points and votes (25%) will be the finalists competing for the PRIZE package at the awards finale at Andiamos Showcase Theatre on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 at 6pm in Novi. The grand prize will be awarded, as well as 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place runner up trophy winners. There will also be prize packages and trophies awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place VOTERS choice winners, compliments of National Singing Star and Beaumont Hospital.

Kids 14 and under, who have been eliminated will have the opportunity to perform THE NATIONAL ANTHEM as a group at the awards finale. Out of these eliminated contestants, (15 and under), who participate at the Awards finale, SEVEN will be given the opportunity to SING and compete for both a KIDS judges prize package AND a KIDS voters prize package. National Singing Star does not like to eliminate kids!! We hope that parents will take advantage of this extended opportunity to give your kids further EXPERIENCE on stage!!!

Good luck to you all. Thank you again for participating.
If you have any questions, please email.
Julie & Debi
gold2@aol.com / broadwaydebi@aol.com
American Performing Arts Network

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DVD SHOWCASE ORDERS will be taken at your showcase on Sunday / Monday.  DetroitCityTV Founded in 2007 is "Detroit's First Internet TV Broadcast Network" producing or supporting over 400 live music and concert events featuring National and Local artists. DCTV specializes in producing live real time entertainment, sports and music events viewed on www.DetroitCity.TV by an audience to date of over 35 million people world wide.

$25 Entire Showcase $10 Additional fee for your performance

NATIONAL SINGING STAR

THE DETROIT COMPETITION

is heading to Michigan

in search of

Detroit's greatest singing star!

Singers of ALL AGES

are welcome to attend 

OPEN CALL AUDITIONS

 OAKLAND MALL

412 W. 14 Mile Rd.

Troy, MI 48083

14 Mile Rd Exit off I-75

Audition:

Monday October 14    2-9pm

Tuesday October 15   2-9pm

REGISTER TO AUDITION

(see details below)

This competition is open to EVERYONE who can SING!

The winner titled

DETROIT'S SINGING STAR

receives

$500 Cash Prize

Singing Star Award Trophy

Television Appearance

Professional Studio Recording Demo Record

Opportunity to compete for National title

Be Detroit's greatest singing sensation!

Here is your chance to be a SINGING STAR !!! Participating is a FUN & CHARITABLE way to lauch your singing career! Profits from vote tickets ($1 per vote) will benefit music programs at

BEAUMONT HEALTH SYSTEMS

IF YOU ARE CHOSEN TO COMPETE

IT IS IMPORTANT TO:

BRING YOUR CROWD

TO THE COMPETITIONS

Competitors moving forward into premilinaries, semi-finals and finals, will be chosen by a combined score determined by both the judge's points and votes accumulated by the crowd. 

COMPETITIONS FOR

SINGERS CHOSEN TO COMPETE

WILL BE HELD AT

BEAUMONT AUDITORIUM

3711 W. 13 Mile Road

Royal Oak, MI 48073

Auditorium Entrance at

Administration Bldg.

South Parking Structure 

PRELIMINARY COMPETITION

Sun Oct 20 Noon-6pm

Mon Oct 21   4-9pm

Tues Oct 22   4-9pm

SEMI FINALS

Wed Oct 23   4-9pm

Mon Oct 28    4-9pm

Wed Oct 30   4-9pm

FINALS 

Sun Nov 3  Noon-6pm

Mon Nov 4   4-9pm

AWARDS FINALE

Tuesday Nov 5  

6:30pm SHOWTIME

FOR OPEN CALL AUDITIONS: Singers are encouraged to sing to a music track easily found by searching the karaoke version on iTunes. You may bring your downloaded music track on a CD, flash drive or smart device, or you may e-mail your mp3 ahead of time by pre-registering at www.nationalsingingstar.com. A sound system will be provided for easy hook up. Singers may also sing a cappella, or sing to a musical instrument (guitar is best). Please note that no piano or accompianist will be provided.

FOR COMPETITIONS: The open call auditions will determine which singers will be invited to COMPETE. If chosen to compete, you will be given a performance slot for the PRELIMINARY competition. This will be your chance to wow both the judges and the voting crowd. Contestants moving forward into semi-finals, finals and awards finale finalists will be determined by a combined judges points and votes by the audience.  It is VERY important to bring your crowd to the competitions.  Each of the 3 competitions, the PRELIMINARIES, SEMI FINALS and FINALS are ticketed voting events and will be open to the public for voting purposes. Tickets to attend the competitions, held at Beaumont Auditorium, will be available in advance and at the door for $10 per person which includes 10 votes. Additional vote tickets can be purchased throughout the competition by those attending. At each competiton, contestants are encouraged to pack the house with friends & family who can support their win by cheering & VOTING!  Voting proceeds benefit music programs at Wm Beaumont Children's Hospital.

REGISTER NOW TO AUDITION

Simply E-mail the following information to:

gold2@aol.com

1. NAME

2. ADDRESS

3. PHONE NUMBER / CELL / TEXT NUMBER

4. E-MAIL ADDRESS

5. MP3 (if applicable) Please include this if you are using an instrumental (karaoke) track. Please see tips below.

6. Choose your time slot Please let us know what TIME works best for you. Choose any time between 2pm-9pm on Monday Oct 14 or Tuesday Oct 15.

7. Confirmation Upon receiving your audition registration, we will send you confirmation of your time slot.

HELPFUL TIPS

1. You will have one minute to sing so pick a song without a long musical intro. One verse and one chorus works best.

2. Bring your instrumental track on a Cd, iPod, iPad, iPhone, mp3 player or flash drive, (we will provide the connection and sound system). If you pre-register, please include your track in your registration e-mail with the metered starting point of where you will begin singing.

3. If you are unable to find a suitable karaoke track to sing to, you may sing a cappella, but it is not preferred, as tracks will be used for the competition.

4. You may sing to an acoustic guitar. (piano/accompanist not provided)

5. Please select singing songs, no RAP for example. All genres of music appreciated in this competition from classical to pop music, broadway, standards, radio hits, opera, sing what you sing best!!! Original music not recommended.  Please pick a song that will wow audiences and Judges of all ages (remember Performing in a competition takes skill to pick the right song, Let us Help You!!  Please pick songs with a G to PG rating only (only appropriate lyrics will be accepted)  The Music Director Debi will have to approve your song at the Preliminaries through the Finale.

6. Pre-registration is recommended. E-mail registration will help you avoid long lines... so register now!

7. Most important have fun!

Hello Debi and Julie

I wanted to take a moment to thank you and Julie for allowing Iris to be a part
of the Detroit Singing Star Competition. It was such a great learning experience
for her. She has been competing on a much smaller scale in 4-H and even won
last year the State 4-H Award for Performing Arts, but this was the first time
she was introduced to such a talented and diverse group.

She totally enjoyed herself and I was very happy about how fairly and
compassionate you both were with all the contestants. Even after the Finals when
we thought she had been eliminated from the Awards Finale we left feeling happy
that she had competed although sad that she had not gone on she valued what she
had learned.

The entire competition was run very professionally,but with a wonderful human
touch that made it feel like family. Again thank you for letting us have this
experience    Mary

Julie and Debi,

Thanks for all you are doing for these children! We can't begin to tell you how much fun Sammy has had doing this event! You had some great talent there! It was her first charity competition (actually any competition) and even though she is not moving forward she had a GREAT time and grew in her confidence level. She is taking away so much from this and she will have memories that will last forever. I pray that she will have other opportunities to be able to do this type of fundraising again, while doing what she loves to do which is SING! I have to share something with you. My family has a lot of heart disease, the condition we have is Cardiomyopathy and it is a weakened heart muscle. This is one of the conditions that doctors worry about when kids play competitive sports and die while doing so. She recently was diagnosed with a mild form of this condition (I also have a more severe case) and she was recently told she cannot play competitive sports and needs to limit her weight lifting. I explain this because she woke up last Saturday morning and saw on the news that Children's Miracle Network was funding a FREE heart check for students at a local high school. THIS WAS AWESOME for her! She LOVED seeing that what she was helping raise money to fund additional events like this. She also signed up to help the American Heart Association as a teen ambassador and is looking forward to try to help raise awareness and money for additional research. I only tell you this, because I want you to know that what you are doing not only helps kids in the hospital who don't have a voice or a way to help, but you also help kids experience helping others and what a great feeling it is! Singing for others and not just for the competition! Sammy would LOVE to continue to grow and learn how to be a better singer and we will do our best to support her in this! Life is full of ups and downs and going through this has helped me see that we need to work to find ways to help her continue what she loves to do! We don't have a lot of money for lessons (I can only work part time for health reasons), but I am going to search for ways to help her to grow in her singing ability and see if there are any other charity events for her to participate in! If you have any ideas, please let me know. Thank you for ALL you do!

God bless you!

Natalie 

Amber and I were looking for you after last nights award ceremony... We just wanted to say thank you for having the auditions and giving Amber a time to shine! We are so proud of her and just had a lot of fun.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and keep up the great work!!!

Amy and Amber Silva 

Thank you so very much for all your help, suggestions and encouragement you
have given to Rhianna, we really appreciate it! You and Julie both are awesome!
>>>> Tonya

I want to learn from this experience. Thanks again for all of your work and help over the past couple weeks. Its been fun.

Sincerely,

Rachael A. Pavloski

This whole experience really has been SO fun and SO great
for me to do what I love, do something that's just for me while still being able
to do good for others by raising a few hundred for RBCH so far with hopefully a
few hundred more to go!

Peace,

Julie P.

Again, thank you so much for this wonderful experience. From your initial correspondence getting me excited (and nervous) to sing Peter Gabriel at the initial audition through your encouragement at all of the performance events you've been great to work with. I hope we do keep in touch.

Sincerely,

Jerry G.

Thanking u 4 all of ur kind help and advice. i am so excited. this is a great opportunity and sooooooooooooo much fun.

Pat

I want to thank you for your hard work, professionalism and kindness. It has been an absolute pleasure to have my daughter in this competition...win or lose.   T.C.

I really enjoyed participating in the contest and I'm appreciative for you guys sending me this far. It was a great experience & I hope to see you all again in the future! Thank so much Debi!

Alanna

I want to thank you both for the incredible opportunity you have offered me through Singing Star.  When it was over (and I didn't win), you CONTINUED to offer me performance opportunities.  I appreciate you believing in me and keeping me in your radar.

Lisa