New Talent Singing Awards

New Talent Singing Awards or ''NTSA'' for short, later re-organized into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals or ''NTSA International Finals'' for short), and most currently re-named TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship is an annual singing competition organized by TVB that searches out new singers to enter the Asian music industry.

History

Beginning

Held in Hong Kong only, contestants are required to compete through multiple rounds to display their vocal talent through different genres of songs and/or vocal challenges such as singing cappellas or in a different language etc. The winner is guaranteed a recording contract with Capital Artists Recording Company.

Overseas Addition

With increased emigrated to North America, TVB opened "Overseas Contestant" catagory to attract contestants and held the contest in cities such as Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

International Affair

With the emergence of several Australian, European and Asian cities like Melbourne, London, Amsterdam and Shanghai wanting to be included in the event, in 1997, TVB Hong Kong created the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals 全球華人新秀歌唱大賽. Instead of having one "overseas contestant" from North America competing in the NTSA Finals , now each participating country would send regional representatives to compete in the NTSA International Finals . Also, due to the downsizing of Capital Artist, Emperor Entertainment Group took over organizing the contest with TVB.

EEG & Mandarin Dominance

The international finals and the Hong Kong regional finals changed their names and logos once again in 2005. Because of the heavy influence of co-organizer Emperor Entertainment Group , the Hong Kong regional finals is now simply called EEG Singing Contest 英皇新秀歌唱大賽, completely disgarding the "New Talent" part of the English title . As for the International Finals, since TVB has decided to move the contest to its mandarin channel, TVB8, the international finals changed its name into TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship TVB8全球華人新秀歌唱大賽. Because of the move, there has been many more contestants representing different regions of Mainland China since 2005. In 2006, spots for several "Internet Region Representatives" are devoted solely to Mainland Chinese contestants who does not live in an area where a NTSA Regional contest is held.

Cities hosted NTSA International Finals

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*Auckland, New Zealand
*Brisbane, Australia
*Calgary, Canada
*Chicago, United States
*Guangzhou, China
*Hong Kong
*Houston, Texas USA
*Jiangsu, China
*Johor, Malaysia
*Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*London, England
*Los Angeles, USA
*Melbourne, Australia
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*Penang, Malaysia
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*Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*Sabah, Malaysia
*San Francisco, USA
*Shanghai, China
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*Sydney, Australia
*Toronto, Canada
*Tianjin, China
*Vancouver, Canada
*Winnipeg, Canada
*Zhejiang, China
*Internet Region

Past Winners and Notable Contestants

NTSA has been the start of many Asian celebrities today. Some have stayed in the music business and have become bonafide singing sensations, while some have become actors and even TV presenters. Below is a list of winners as well as past contestants who have made a contribution to the entertainment business after competing in NTSA.