Indian Girl WinsUSD 10000 in Global Online Singing Contest
Downloading a singing app turned Richa Peter Topnointo a star overnight. Richa is the first
Indian winner of the 10 Grand Challenge the singing contest hosted by StarMaker,
a user generated music and video platform. The
online singing contest allows the participant to record a solo cover with its mobile app, and submit it to participate the
challenge. Richa won with an astounding 369904 votes from amongst more than
25000 participants from all over the world. Every year India sees millions of
teenagers taking part in online and off-line music talent shows as a route to
realize their singing career aspirations.
Speaking of her 10000 USD win, Richa said, “Starmaker is a perfect
platform for aspiring singers like me to reach out to a global audience. The
response has been amazing and of course, the prize money is simply awesome. I
would like to thank every single person who voted for me.” The 21 year old from
Pune hopes that this win is just be the beginning of an exciting phase in her
singing career.
“In the past few months, we are excited to witness India is rising as
one of our fastest growing market with the most active users .We are also
pleasantly surprised to find out that there are so many singing enthusiasts in
India,” said Roger C, the CEO of StarMaker.
“As we are putting more efforts to localize StarMaker in India, we
strongly believe more talented Indian singers like Richa will be discovered and
heard in the near future,”added Roger. Starmaker is also partnering with American Idol to offer Front of The Line audition passes
to aspiring singers.
Headquartered in San Francisco,the Starmaker app justreached 50 million users milestone in July. With over 1,00,000 daily downloads in
India, the app connects music lovers from places like Pune, Delhi, Mumbai,
Bengaluru, Chennai, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow and Ahmedabad to name a few. The
next leg of the contest is expected to be announced in September next month.
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