{"id":220524,"date":"2022-06-07T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/?p=220524"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:58:36","slug":"former-the-voice-kids-ph-finalist-wins-1st-runner-up-in-us-singing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=220524","title":{"rendered":"Former \u2018The Voice Kids PH\u2019 Finalist Wins 1st Runner-Up In US Singing Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cThe Voice Kids PH\u201d finalist Claire Geonzon wins first runner-up in one of the biggest annual singing contests in Los Angeles, California. <\/p>\n<p>She is the youngest winner in the recently concluded 2022 Discovery Philippines Competition on May 27.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fdiscoveryphilippines2022%2Fphotos%2Fa.109621188392204%2F129834936370829%2F%3Ftype%3D3&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Waynehart Claire Geonzon, 11, is a former top 8 finalist of \u201cThe Voice Kids\u201d and was the only kid who entered the Discovery Philippines finals.<\/p>\n<p>Geonzon was a multi medalist and World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) semi-finalist and division champion winner.<\/p>\n<p>The talented young Filipina also played the young Nala in Disney\u2019s \u201cLion King: The Musical\u201d international tour.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Texas, USA, Claire performed Mozart\u2019s \u201cDer H\u00f6lle Rache\u201d as her final piece\u2014which is considered to be one of the most difficult opera songs of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her winning performance here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fjames.magbanua%2Fvideos%2F542614570911432%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leeana Kelly and Kevin Hermongenes were announced as the second runner-up and champion, respectively. The contest winner will represent the Philippines in Europe for Discovery International next year.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Quezon City, Claire Geonzon was 6 years old when she started singing and joined \u201cThe Voice Kids PH.\u201d She was a three-chair-turner who caught the attention of coaches and the audience with her performance of Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cMusic and Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire is a high school scholar and achiever at OB Montessori Greenhills. She is also being coached in singing by Lea Salonga.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: www.facebook.com\/james.magbanua, www.facebook.com\/starlinkpromotions<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.facebook.com\/discoveryphilippines2022\/, www.facebook.com\/obmcofficial\/, www.facebook.com\/marie.geonzon.357<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youngest finalist in the 2022 Discover Philippines Competition in Los Angeles, California, is a Filipino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19265],"tags":[7863],"class_list":["post-220524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story","tag-social"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}