STACY MENANG, JO-ANN RAMPAS MENANG

Congratulation to STACY for winning the Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian Artist Baru Wanita 2009. Just barely a year after winning the reality shows AKADEMI FANTASIA and now the Best New Artist for the lady category. It shows that Malaysian appreciate any talented singers and will not select artist through it colour, race or religion. We are heading in the right direction of one Malaysian as advocated by our newly installed Prime Minister Dato Najib Abdul Razak.



There were few others from Sabah nominated for the prestigious awards like Adam, Ayu, and Rich apart from Stacy. It was indeed a big recognition already if you get nominated for the awards and I must say that Sabahan artists are really very talented singers. Let us hope that with those nominations for the awards, artist from Sabah will produce even more sophisticated in their performance.

Airing simultaneously with the Anugerah Berita Harian last night was the quarter final of the Bintang RTM where two Sabahan was contesting. It was indeed a night of Sabahan when its contestants Jo-Ann Rampas and Ikbal sang through to the semi-final. I would’nt want to be bias but it really showed that the Sabahan contestants were way too strong for the other contestants. The selection of songs and rendition was perfect and I might say that these duo performance lifted the show from boring. Let’s hope they will go far in the competition.