If the sports have Olympics, the Performing Arts have its World Championship.  It is called the World Championships of Performing Arts or the WCOPA.  On the recently concluded 13th World Championships of Performing Arts, Filipino talents have once again proven our supremacy in terms of Performing Arts.  The Little Big Star (the same competition Charice won 3rd place in Big Division) Little Division Grand Winner Rhap Salazar garnered the coveted titles Junior Grand Champion Solo Vocalist of the World, and the Junior Grand Champion Performer of the World.

Rhap Salazar won all the 5 GOLD medals from five categories he competed in at this year’s WCOPA.  Rhap topped in Male Vocal Broadway (11-12 category), Male Vocal Gospel (11-12 category), Male Vocal Open (11-12 category), Male Vocal Pop (11-12 category) and Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz (11-12 category).  Rhap had blown away the audience in his rendition of Celine Dion’s “All By Myself” during the Junior Grand Champion Solo Vocalist of the World grand finals.

On the other hand, the vocal quartet The Young Voices of Negros won the title Junior Grand Champion Group Vocalists of the World.  They won Gold in Group Vocal Original Works and Group Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz and Silver in Group Vocal Gospel, Group Vocal Open and Group Vocal Pop all in 11-12 categories.

Here’s the complete medal list of Team Philippines in the 2009 WCOP “Talent Olympics”:

J2 Power Duet

o SILVER – Group Vocal Pop – 30&Over
o SILVER – Group Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 30&Over

The Young Voices Of Negros Philippines

o GOLD – Group Vocal Original Works – 11-12
o GOLD – Group Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 11-12
o SILVER – Group Vocal Gospel – 11-12
o SILVER – Group Vocal Open – 11-12
o SILVER – Group Vocal Pop – 11-12

Christian Matthew Andeza

o GOLD – Male Vocal Contemporary – 18-24
o GOLD – Male Vocal Original Works – 18-24
o SILVER – Male Vocal Broadway – 18-24
o BRONZE – Male Vocal Pop – 18-24
o BRONZE – Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 18-24

Evette Pabalan

o GOLD – Female Vocal Broadway – 25-29
o GOLD – Female Vocal Rock – 25-29
o SILVER – Female Vocal Gospel – 25-29
o BRONZE – Female Vocal Pop – 25-29

Guy Lockwood

o GOLD – Male Acting Contemporary – 30&Over
o GOLD – Male Vocal Gospel – 30&Over
o SILVER – Male Acting Dramatic – 30&Over
o SILVER – Male Variety-3 And Under Props – 30&Over
o BRONZE – Male Vocal Country&Western – 30&Over

Izarzuri Vidal

o SILVER – Female Vocal Opera – 18-24

Maila Mitra

o GOLD – Female Vocal Gospel – 25-29
o SILVER – Female Vocal Broadway – 25-29
o SILVER – Female Vocal Open – 25-29
o SILVER – Female Vocal Pop – 25-29
o SILVER – Female Vocal Rock – 25-29

Martha Joy Lim-Fiuza

o GOLD – Female Vocal Open – 18-24
o GOLD – Female Vocal Pop – 18-24
o BRONZE – Female Vocal Gospel – 18-24
o BRONZE – Female Vocal Country&Western – 18-24

Mayumi Morales

o GOLD – Female Vocal Broadway – 13-15
o GOLD – Female Vocal Open – 13-15
o GOLD – Female Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 13-15
o SILVER – Female Vocal Gospel – 13-15

Melchizedek Bicua

o SILVER – Male Vocal Open – 11-12
o SILVER – Male Vocal Pop – 11-12
o SILVER – Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 11-12
o SILVER – Male Vocal Rock – 11-12

Nicole Joy Espolong

o SILVER – Female Vocal Pop – 18-24

Orie Jun Vamenta

o GOLD – Male Vocal Rock – 25-29
o SILVER – Male Vocal Gospel – 25-29
o SILVER – Male Vocal Open – 25-29
o BRONZE – Male Vocal Pop – 25-29

Reynaldo Concepcion

o GOLD – Male Vocal Gospel – 25-29
o GOLD – Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 25-29
o SILVER – Male Vocal Broadway – 25-29
o SILVER – Male Vocal Pop – 25-29
o BRONZE – Male Vocal Open – 25-29

Rhap Salazar

o GOLD – Male Vocal Broadway – 11-12
o GOLD – Male Vocal Gospel – 11-12
o GOLD – Male Vocal Open – 11-12
o GOLD – Male Vocal Pop – 11-12
o GOLD – Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 11-12

Ronald Diana

o GOLD – Male Vocal Contemporary – 30&Over
o GOLD – Male Vocal Open – 30&Over
o GOLD – Male Vocal Original Works – 30&Over
o SILVER – Male Vocal R&B/Soul/Jazz – 30&Over
o BRONZE – Male Vocal Pop – 30&Over

Watch Rhap as he rocks the house with his powerful rendition of Celine Dion’s¬† “All By Myself”

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