The week-end crowd at Brookefields was in for a musical treat on Saturday evening as it got to hear the six finalists of the Radio City Super Singer contest render their best. The novice participants did not fail to attract the crowd as it stayed till the end to see the best talent earn the title.
Wild card entry contestant Larsan Cyril went on to win the Radio City Super Singer title after a hard-won race. College student Cyril, prodded by college mates and motivated by his father, was surprised by his own win.
He beat 3,000 contestants from Coimbatore to take home a Scooty Pep+ and Rs. 50,000. Cyril was among the six finalists who crooned in the melody, retro and fast beat rounds to gain the title. Rajesh Sharma, a faculty from an engineering college, was the runner-up, while 21-year old Anjana Parthiban became the ‘Voice of Purity’. The other finalists, Devi Kamakshi, Revathy Krishnamoorthy, and Vinod, took home trophies.
The team of Radio City was taken aback when it got 3,000 applications in response to the contest. Undeterred, from September 3 to 29 it received auditions over phone, website, CDs and got it shortlisted to 30 and then to the final six.
“Once we got the number down to six, we involved the public and let them vote for their favourite singer. The response from the people of Coimbatore has been good all through. This kind of a show is a first time for us and we are happy that the best talent won. We plan to use the voice of all six finalists for our shows in the future,” Solomon Porres, Programming Head of Radio City, said.
Playback singer Maya of the “Un thalai mudi” from “Kaadhalil Vizhunthen” fame and music director Siddharth Babu of the forthcoming film “Yen Indhe Maiyakkam” acted as judges from the preliminary round to the finals.
Huge response
Ms. Maya, an alumna of Coimbatore Institute of Technology, said she was not surprised that there was such a huge response from Coimbatore.
“There is an abundance of talent here. Only they are shy to come forward. The quality of music from all the contestants has been very good. They have worked hard and practised well,” she added.
Orchestra lead Krishnakumar ‘Lakshmi Shruthi’, who trained the finalists for five days, said that they were a dedicated lot and were consistent in their efforts to perform their best.
But it was not music all through. Radio City listeners who are used to hearing them on radio, got to hear it live as Radio Jockeys Viji and Dongri David kept the audience engrossed with their lively banter through the evening.
The Hindu was the media partner for the event.
via The Hindu Newspaper http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/college-student-wins-radio-city-super-singer-title/article3951316.ece
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