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Young Mariah’s got talent…
…but we already knew that.
Thirteen-year-old R&B singer Mariah Roberson, who we profiled at this year’s Urban Music Festival a couple weeks back, took top honors in the Beat 104.9’s “Austin’s Got Talent” competition this weekend. The competition called upon Austinites of all ages to showcase their talents in exchange for an opportunity to win tickets to Kanye West’s “Glow In The Dark Tour.” The Beat employed a loose definition of the word “talent,” which encompassed everything from singing your heart out like our girl surely did to dancing, comedy or, uh, Fear Factor-like stunts.
Nine individuals were named competition finalists, including three rappers and six singers, and, shockingly, no sword swallowers or cockroach wranglers. Each finalist won tickets to Kanye’s show on Wednesday at the Erwin Center. But with her killer pipes (which you can check out yourself in the video above), The Beat crowned Mariah Austin’s top talent. As grand prize winner, Mariah will travel to the East Coast on May 10 to catch the “Glow In The Dark Tour” in Washington, D.C. on the Beat’s dime. Congratulations, Mariah!
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By abu toppin
April 29, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
I saw here at the Urban Soul Festival and she was the most talented singer on the stage..and she could be the first r&b singer to make it out of austin. Good luck to her