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When 19-year-old Mary-Jess sang for 70 million
TV viewers nobody back home in England
knew anything about it. Her victory in the talent show I Want to Sing to the Stars was seen by five times as many people
as watch a similar UK show,
called the X-Factor, but they were
all from the Chinese region of Jiangsu,
as that’s the only place where the programme is
shown.
Mary-Jess was in China
to study the language as part of her university course when she entered the
competition. A friend had invited her to watch him in a TV quiz show. On their
way, they passed the talent show’s studio. Mary-Jess went in, found a producer
and sang to him. During the competition, she had classes as usual, then went to
the studio in the evening. When she wasn’t on stage, she was busy doing her
homework.
Mary-Jess used her £900 prize money to fly home
to see her mum. She told her mum how amazed she was to have won the first
prize. Her mother thought it would be fun to tell the local newspaper about her
daughter’s victory. Within 24 hours, Mary-Jess’s story had appeared nationally
and just weeks later she had a manager, a lawyer and was off to New
York with record companies fighting to sign her as one
of their artists. That’s how her singing career started.
to encourage people to watch a particular TV show
to advise how to start a career as a professional singer
to describe someone’s life-long ambition to become famous
to explain what happened to someone after winning a competition