Gleek Talent Showcase Round 2 – Top Ten
And the winners are…
1st Place — Stephanie Ciotta
Singing “Hole in My Heart” by Alphabeat
2nd Place — Jack Savige
Short Film -- “Don’t Stop Believin’”
3rd Place — Katherine Paige
Singing “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gershwin.
The winners will be contacted soon for their shipping addresses and then the prizes will be mailed out!
Thank you to everyone who entered and voted!
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All the entries are in and it’s time to announce the Top Ten finalists for our Gleek Talent Showcase Contest.
It’s Round 2!
We’ve looked through all the entrants’ videos, and we’ve picked our Top Ten! These finalists displayed some of the best talent with their videos entries.
Keep in mind the prizes that are at stake for the winners:
First Place -- 1 Signed Glee Script & 1 Signed Poster from the Gleek Tour
Second Place -- 1 Signed Glee Cast Photograph
Third Place -- 1 Glee Hat
To be fair, please watch all the contests’ videos before voting in the poll at the bottom of the post.
Voting will end on March 29th, which is when we will announce the winners. Good luck!
1) Stephanie Ciotta
Singing “Hole in My Heart” by Alphabeat
Stephanie is 19 years old. Though she attends school in Boston, she was born and raised in New York. She loves music and hopes to pursue a career in the field later on. Enjoy her cover of the song “Hole in My Heart” by Alphabeat! She actually spliced together video of her singing both of the parts! Neat!
2) Jack Savige
Short Film -- “Don’t Stop Believin’”
Jack is 19 years old, from Melbourne, Australia and currently studying screenwriting. He made a hilarious video based on the concept of three Glee fans writing an episode for the premiere of Glee‘s second season. It is hilarious and definitely shows off his talent for film making! When deciding who to vote for, remember: W.W.C.C.D.?
3) Mary Pascoe
Singing “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin
Mary lives in Los Angeles, California, and submitted a video of a live performance she did there. She’s both an actress and a singer-songwriter. She plays the guitar, trumpet, and piano, and even self-produced an album called “Who Brings a Cat to the Disco?”! Enjoy her lively rendition of “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin!
4) Cara-Lynn Branch
Painting…
Cara-Lynn Branch is 21 years old and lives in Canada. She writes books, lyrics & scripts for musicals. Despite her major in musical theater, the talent she chose to display is more unique. Describing it just as “painting” doesn’t do it justice. Just watch it. If you don’t appreciate it, then you aren’t a true Gleek! XD
5) Celeste Kamiya
Singing “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell
Celeste lives in San Francisco, California and has been a huge Glee fan since the first 2 seconds of the pilot. Also a huge fan of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, she enjoys singing, acting, and dancing. Although she’s too young to audition for Glee, I think you’ll love her version of “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell that she sang for our Gleek Talent Showcase.
6) Steven Karunphand
Singing “Ordinary People” by John Legend
Steven Karunphand is from Belleville, New Jersey. He’s 21 years old and currently attending college at Fordham University in New York. For our contest, he sang “Ordinary People” by John Legend. Enjoy!
7) Rebecca Michelson
Singing “Terrified” by Kara DioGuardi & an Original Song
Rebecca goes to school in Boston, but lives just outside of Philadelphia. She’s a freshman in college and loves to sing, play the guitar and play the piano. She says that she secretly wants to be on Broadway someday, but has major nerves. Maybe one day! Enjoy an original song about her love of Glee, a Kara DioGuardi song and a bit of piano playing.
8) Jean Ryan Escalante
Singing “Swallowed in the Sea” by Coldplay, a cappella
Jean is 22 years old and his hometown is Yellowknife, NT in Canada. He’s currently attending Vancouver Film School. His musical background includes three years in his high school’s choir, one semester in concert band, and a supporting role in a musical with a solo. Also, he gets a lot of vocal practice by singing in the shower every day. Here’s his a cappella version of “Swallowed in the Sea” by Coldplay.
9) Katherine Paige
Singing “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gershwin.
Paige is 14 years old and lives in Bakersfield, California. Recently she played the role of Mrs. Potts in a production of Beauty & The Beast, and although she’s too young to audition for Glee, she sent us a video of her singing “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gershwin. Enjoy!
10) Elena Dudum
Singing “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles
Elena is 17 years old, lives in San Francisco, California and is Palestinian-American. She loves being in musical theater productions, both in her school and with local theater companies. When she isn’t singing, she enjoys designing and sewing her own line of clothing. For our contest, she sang “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles. [Warning: the audio's a little quiet, so you may want to turn your volume up.]
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Cast your votes!
In the spirit of Glee, please do NOT spam vote by voting a ton of time for one person. Every voter should vote once, selecting all the contestants that they’d like to win. Let’s keep this contest as fair as possible, so it’s truly the most talented person winning, not just the person that got the most spam votes. Thank you very much and good luck to all the contestants! :)
[Edit: Also, voting before looking at the results or reading the comments will help keep the contest more fair and balanced. Thanks!]
i don’t know if you guys have realized this, but if you go to stephanie’s youtube channel, you’ll see that she has over 1100 subscribers at the moment so it’s really not that “fishy” that she has over 700 votes right now. in any case, everyone needs to CALM DOWN and stop accusing each other of cheating. seriously, it’s not like a crazy impressive prize is at stake here, so no need to point fingers. how pathetic do you think these people are that they’d cheat for a signed script and some poster? just have fun and vote for your favorite.
Great job to Katherine Paige! Wow! What an incredible voice! The fact remains that YOU are the only person here that actually has the voice to be on Glee anyway..despite who wins this contest! Good luck!
So Stephanie can harmonize.. big deal… plenty of people can do that.. if there were 4 of her, then it coul be impressive… not saying she’s not good.. she is… but I don’t think she’s the best…
Jack’s is hilarious!
Celeste, Katherine and Elena have really beautifull voices. I could just listen to them all day. That’s why I voted for them.
Congrats to all! =)
Thanks Rob & Gleefan.com for giving us the opportunity to showcase our talents! And thanks to everyone who voted for me. This was a lot of fun and I can’t wait for the season premiere of Glee on April 13th.
jack is cheating!!!! whether or not it is overnight his votes have gone up an extreme amount which is totally ridiculous. if he does win, he should feel guilty because it was not in good glee spirit. what a loser. somebody better than you could have won, cheater. your video wasn’t even funny.
Omigoodness, Katherine Paige, your video is a lifesaver! Seriously, I have chronic insomnia and it was pretty bad last night, so I watched your video and pretty much fell asleep right at my desk. It was amazing, I don’t even think I made it through the entire song, but it was the best night’s sleep I’ve gotten in a while, thank you so much! Yay Glee! Good luck to all the contestants!
Katherine Paige All the Way!!! Do not listen to Marc, he’s deaf!
@tobias
marc wasn’t deaf until he heard katherine paige sing.
You people are ridiculous!
Just because you want someone to win doesn’t mean you have say bad things about the other contestants! They’re all talented, otherwise they wouldn’t be here!
So, seriously, stop acting like children! Shame on you!
Peopledo have to calm down and stop picking on other contestants! But people have to stop spam voting! And we allll no who is doing that! This is very close and we all have to calm down, sit, relax and let the winner be named fairly. Good luck everyone!
Yes i agree. Everyone out there should stop arguing and picking on the other contestants… and VOTE FOR STEPH. the other contestants smell.
OBVIOUSLY people are bias for steph and she has alot of friends on her side. Have you ever thought how unfair that nearly every single person voting for stephanie is dissing everyone else! get over yourselves. its not just america in this competition, and its not JUST a singing competition! get over it!
Can the moderator of this charming discussion group tell me what time zone the competition end date is in and whether it is close of business time (5pm) or midnight. Congratulations to all the contestants, you’ve all done a great job just to get here.
Celeste Kamiya is the only good person on hear shes in 4th place?? wth is wrong with people the people who are winning are not even close to Celeste’s talent!! no matter what happens she SHOULD win!!!
@Sasha
Obviously, you can’t “hear” very well if you think Celeste is better than the 3 people on HERE who are currently above her in this competition.
celeste is amazing @sasha! she deserves to WIN
Know what I think? I think this aggressive cattiness and willingness to cheat is the true spirit of Glee.
Sad but freaking true.
Steph, you don’t deserve to win. Have fun with the prizes that you don’t deserve. Your votes are spam and the people who voted/spammed for you; congratulations on your pathetic win.
@Kara
Is it so hard to believe that 1200 people may have actually liked Stephanie’s video enough to vote for it themselves? Are you that pathetic that you can’t even bring yourself to be happy for the ONLY contestant here whose video has more than 5000 views on Youtube? Do the math. Accusing someone of doing that kind of cheating for some pretty humble prizes without any hard evidence only makes you look like an asshole. So what if you didn’t enjoy her video as much as 1200 other people did – get over yourself and congratulations for having the rudest comment on this entire page.
@Kara
As a “spammer” as you’d like to label me, Steph’s video showed the most talent of anyone else here. And she won. Besides… who the hell are you? What have you ever done? Calling someone a cheater because she has friends who think she’s a good singer. At least people know who Steph is and support her. Take a long walk off a short pier. The better singer won.
@Kara
Your ridiculous! Do you find joy in making other people feel bad? SHE WON BECAUSE SHE WAS THE BEST SINGER! She won fair a square. From her youtube she has many fans and some people could even say her # is low compared to what she COULD HAVE gotten! She is talented and honestly she was the best one on here. SHE WON! deal with it and leave her the heck alone. and btw congratulations, you have the meanest comment on here!
Kara, were you not hugged enough as a child?
Honestly, if it were a singing competition either Steven or Katherine would have won… not just based on talent, I think most of them were talented, but both had a great range, controlled voices and sounded with little or no pitch problems. Some of the video work was great, Steph’s was pretty neat but not hard to do, Jack’s film was funny and well done. It’s unreal that so many people feel the need to bash one another instead of just supporting the people who were brave enough to post a video for this competition knowing there were people like that out there. Congrats to all of you :)
Kara, was that comment serious? LOL.. why can’t you be happy for Steph? She deserved to win, her video was original and the vocals were amazing. You must have been one of the contestants who were competing for this prize to care so much about someone else winning.. get ova it! Congrats Steph and Kara gtfo. kthxbi haveanicespringbreak
Katherine Paige
@ Heidi – well said.
@ heidi Thanks so much for the compliment Everyone was great…
btw this is the steven from the video the other steven is not me.
Awesome top twenty movies list, I agree with about half of your pick
I believe they all have talent. I like that Stephanie won. I would have Jack Savige on the 3rd position… but that just me. Great job to all of the competitors.
1st Place — Stephanie Ciotta
Singing “Hole in My Heart” by Alphabeat
2nd Place — Jack Savige
Short Film — “Don’t Stop Believin’”
3rd Place — Katherine Paige
Singing “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Gershwin.