Chenee Capuyan, 19 years old, a McDonald’s Damosa branch restaurant employee from Davao del Sur, Philippines, stunned celebrity judges and an audience of more than 14,000 with a powerful performance of Destiny’s Child’s “Stand Up for Love” to win the Voice of McDonald’s global singing competition held in Orlando, Florida USA last April 22.
Chenee Capuyan, the youngest among 12 finalists, is now the second Filipina from Davao to compete in the Voice of McDonald's finals after Yu of McDonald's Ilustre won first runner up in Season 2 back in 2008.
A panel of internationally-renowned music industry professionals judged the final competition: Estelle, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer; Troy Carter, chairman/CEO of Atom Factory, Inc., whose clients include Lady Gaga; Walter Afanasieff, Grammy Award-winning music producer whose credits include recordings by Mariah Carey and Celine Dion; and prominent entertainment attorney Ken Hertz.
As the new Voice of McDonald's, Capuyan takes home $25,000 and an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles with two VIP tickets to the Lady Gaga "Monster Ball Tour" concert in August 2010, courtesy of Troy Carter and the Atom Factory. Walter Afanasieff surprised Capuyan with an invitation to record a demo in his Los Angeles studio. She will also meet Elton John, who is exclusively performing tonight at the McDonald's 2010 Worldwide Convention. In addition, Capuyan wins a new MacBook courtesy of the Coca-Cola Company.
"All of those people watching me perform on stage -- it was really amazing," said Capuyan. "I'm so thankful to the McDonald's family for what I've learned and experienced."
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Last April 27, 2010, I wrote a post entitled “Bloggers’ Choice This Coming 2010 Election “and this post contained a poll. The poll is about who among the candidates running for president and vice-president were chosen by different Filipino bloggers. I want to thank the bloggers who voted, participated and commented on this poll, as a matter of fact, a total of 211 bloggers participated. As of 1:45 p.m today, May 7, 2010, I officially closed the poll, and now I present to you the results. Please click the link
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