{"id":29530,"date":"2014-10-21T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29530"},"modified":"2014-10-21T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T10:58:23","slug":"filipina-teen-is-x-factor-australia-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/21\/filipina-teen-is-x-factor-australia-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipina teen is X Factor Australia champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29533\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Marlisa-Punzalan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29533\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Marlisa-Punzalan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Marlisa-Punzalan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Marlisa-Punzalan-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Marlisa-Punzalan.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Fifteen-year-old Marliza Punzalan is the champion of the recently concluded X-Factor Australia. The final, which was held on Monday night, saw some of the best singers in Australia battling it out for the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>Punzalan was born in Western Sidney to Filipino parents. During her audition, she wowed the judges by singing The Beatle\u2019s \u201cYesterday.\u201d On Sunday, she sang the same song and two others including \u201cStand By You\u201d and \u201cNever Be The Same\u201d with Australian performer Jessica Mauboy. Her mentor was former Boyzone member Ronan Keating.<\/p>\n<p>On announcement night, Punzalan shared the stage with competitors Dean Ray and Brothers 3. Afterwards, they were narrowed down to two with Punzalan and Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Punzalan sang \u201cTitanium\u201d before she was announced as the winner.<br \/>\nShe will take home the grand prize which includes a recording contract with Sony Music Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Rose Fostanes, another Filipina won in X Factor Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Fifteen-year-old Marliza Punzalan is the champion of the recently concluded X-Factor Australia. The final, which was held on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[8326],"class_list":["post-29530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-x-factor","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}