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Billionaires bid $40K to hear The Voice winner sing
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Chin, the winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, was being honoured at a University of the West Indies fundraising banquet at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto.
She wasn’t scheduled to sing on her first visit to Canada. But some spur-of-the-moment bidding at the end of the evening generated excitement for fans of the star.
Bidding started at $1,000 by auctioneer Gordon Cressy and seemed to stall briefly at the $4,000 mark. Cressy then asked Lee-Chin why he wasn’t joining in.
“It’s too low,” joked the billionaire, who astonished the crowd by bidding $10,000 if Chin would sing just one song.
The bid was eventually matched by Chang who is the patron of the ball. The stipulation: if only Chin would consent to sing a second song.
This was topped by Lee-Chin who offered another $20,000 if Chin would sing a third song, for a total of $40,000. For the record, that’s $13,333 per song. Proceeds go to scholarships for the Caribbean-based university system.
A flattered Chin got on stage at the Ritz ballroom, saying, “I hope you don’t mind if I sing a cappella,” since no band was present, and launched into a soaring version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
She then sang Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and then her own 2007 hit “Hideaway,” as the crowd, some who had paid as much as $2,000 for a ticket to the banquet, roared their approval.
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Read more: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...hin_40000.html
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