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Project SuperStar (season 2)

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Host(s)
  
Quan Yi Fong Jeff Wang

Origin
  
Singapore

Broadcaster
  
MediaCorp Channel U

Broadcast from
  
8 November 2006 (2006-11-08) – 4 February 2007 (2007-02-04)

Judges
  
Billy Koh Lee Wei Song Roy Loi Anthony Png Dawn Yip

Finals venue
  
Singapore Indoor Stadium

The second season of the Singaporean reality talent show Project SuperStar began on 8 November 2006 on MediaCorp Channel U. The show is hosted by Quan Yi Fong and Jeff Wang. The overall winner received talent management contracts with Warner Music Singapore and MediaCorp. Billy Koh, Lee Wei Song, Roy Loi, Anthony Png and Dawn Yip returned as judges for their second season.

Contents

On 4 February 2007, winner of the male category Daren Tan was announced as the overall winner of the season, with female category winner Lydia Tan as the overall runner-up.

Development

Season 2 was broadcast from 8 November 2006 to 4 February 2007. When the auditions are launched in early September, over 6000 aspirants came to audition, breaking the record of all star-searching contests in Singapore.

Finalists

The final 24 finalists were confirmed as follows;

Key:

  • Note: Singer-songwriter Tay Kewei was originally selected as one of the final 24 finalists, but was later disqualified due to contractual violation. She was replaced by Sheila Ou, a contestant who was originally eliminated in the round three auditions.

    • Live shows

  • Top 16 : Retro Night: The 1980s to 1990s
  • Top 10 : A slow song and a dance item
  • Top 8 : Oldies Night: The 1940s to 1970s
  • Top 6 : Theme song of a local drama
  • Top 6 : Theme song of a movie
  • Top 4 : One English song of their choice
  • Top 4 : One Chinese song of their choice
  • Top 4 : Productions choice, same song, different rendition
  • Top 2 : One rock song (will require the finalist to dance, live band will be accompanied)
  • Top 2 : One unplugged song (live band will be accompanied)
  • Top 2 : One hip-hop song (will require the finalist to dance)
  • Top 2 : One jazz/bossa nova song (live band will be accompanied)
  • Top 2 : One personally selected pop song (live band will be accompanied)

    • On 18 January 2007, the 4 finalists competed. Lydia Tan Di Ya emerged as the female champion, with a higher overall score of public votes and judges score, accounting 62.1% as compared to Carrie Yeo's 37.9%. It was a tougher fight for the males, with Daren Tan Sze Wei, the male champion, accounting for 52.72% as compared to Nathaniel Tan's 47.28%. Unlike the 1st season, a contract is only limited to the overall champion, while the rest of the contestants have to wait for recording companies to sign them up.

    Daren started off the night with a 60-40 lead in CD single sales. Out of the 5 round of singing, Diya won 3 rounds while Daren won 2 rounds in the hearts of the judges.

    Daren won the title of the 2nd season's Singapore Project Superstar with the margin of 59% to Diya's 41%, the closest margin in any star searching competitions held in Singapore at this moment. Previous competition had margins of 61 to 39, 62 to 38, 65 to 35, 64 to 36 and 70 to 30.

    Live show details

    Quarter-finals 1A

    Quarter-finals 1B

    Quarter-finals 2A

    Quarter Finals 2B

    Revival Round

    Semi-Final 1

    Semi-Final 2

    Semi-Final 3

    Semi-Final 4

    Finale

    References

    Project SuperStar (season 2) Wikipedia
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