Jo-Anna Sue Henley Rampas at ICT Gala Night, Magellan Sutera, 29th November 2007
December 10th, 2007After several missed opportunities, finally I saw the 2007 Unduk Ngadau / The Harvest Queen sing live.
Well, what can I say, she’s an absolutely fantastic vocalist. And an Unduk Ngadau to boot. Now that’s a total package!
She sang quite a few songs, all live, ably backed by the State Cultural Board, including “Adaa” (IMHO the 2004 Kadazandusun song of the year) and “Endless Love”.
But the most impressive were “Tiada Lagi” where IMHO she bettered both the original by Mayang Sari and Amy Search’s version. Then she took on Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”, which to me, nearly equalled Ms Houston’s studio version!
Incidentally, Whitney was in KL around the same time for the Live N Loud event. Someone blogged that Whitney made her entry at 1.40am and sang about 4 songs, and that she also sang “I will Always Love You” and from what I read, she could hardly reach the highest notes.
So of course this is an unmissable photo opportunity:
At this stage, 18-year old Jo-Anna doesn’t have managers / bodyguards guarding her every move yet. When she left at 9 something barely anybody noticed. It might not stay like that for too long!
I was first impressed with her singing, as well as songwriting abilities 3 years ago with “Koupusan”, when she was an unknown 15-year old:
Picture credits: Josie, SmokeHead and Neo
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I want her to join next AF
I heard (but dunno if this is true or not) that she was shortlisted for AF5 but did not make the final cut.
HEY, SHE IS LOVELY AND SHE CAN SING LIKE A DIVA TOO!!!! AND SHE HAS GREAT BODY MEASUREMENTS, BODY CURVES TOO…. I WONDER HOW MUCH IS THE ‘BERIAN’, ‘NOPUNG’ AND ‘BELANJA DAPUR’ IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO MARRY HER????
Haha… too early to say. For goodness sake, she’s still a teenager!
Nice shots Mr Ben!
She is WAYYYYYYY BEAUTIFUL in those pictures than the ones in those HOTLINK ADS pictures around KK.
I bet it is the hairdo! Love it
I never noticed the Hotlink Ads. Too busy driving the car
always thought sabah has very talented singers… just lack professional reps.
Did she wore the same outfit during Konsert Krismas Qlu?
I don’t know - I didnt go to that concert.