The Filipino community’s singing-and-dancing sensation Brian Lorenz Babon performed a dream run to win the star-studded Talent Quest at Cabra Vale Diggers Club in Fairfield, Sunday, May 15.
Babon swept the audience off its feet in a tantalising opening number, I Dreamed A Dream, with a song-and-dance performance.
(The song was lifted from the musical Les Miserables.)
Then he changed the tempo and showed off his cheeky Cha Cha and Samba dancing prowess to his next song Save The Last Dance by Michael Bublé, engaging the audience with his very expressive style.
The performance landed him in second place. With his confidence growing in the next rounds, Babon closed the finals spectacularly with a rendition of This Is the Moment to stamp his name indelibly in the winner’s trophy.
”It was an amazing experience for me,” said the multi-talented and diminutive entertainer. Performing and competing as a dancer and singer in the mainstream was awesome. I actually surprised myself.”
Indeed, Babon had left in his wake Jack Vigen (runner-up) and Jacinta Gulisano (third place), both of whom had finished in the top ten of national television’s Australia’s Got Talent in 2009. Another competitor was the Victoria Avenue quartet, who won the 2010 Blacktown Talent Quest.
”In my first number, I was a bit unsteady singing with live band,” Babon said. ”I hadn’t done that for a long time, and I had to provide music sheets. I had been more accustomed to singing with a backing track.”
Babon sings and dances professionally, occasionally does charity gigs for the Filipino
community, and is part of Shout and Out segment on Radio Sandigan as a broadcaster.