The 7th Annual International Karaoke Night has gone back to being live after last year's virtual event. We all agree that it's much more fun to sing together! This year, we had songs in all of the modern languages taught at Sewanee: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Our three judges: Kerry Ginger, Linda Heck, and Selena Piercey assessed the acts based on the following criteria: stage presence, crowd response, difficulty of song, pronunciation, and voice quality. Here are the winners for 2021:
SOLO ACTS
1st Place: Vivine Kampire
Tourner la page (Turn the page) by Zaho
French
2nd Place: Ben Csaszar
Più bella cosa (The most beautiful thing) by Eros Ramazotti
Italian
3rd Place: Sophia Burr
Tu vuo fa l'americano (You wanna be an American) by Renato Carosone
Italian
SMALL GROUP ACTS
1st Place: Saverio Annunziata & Quynh Truong
Mon Amour (My Love) by Gigi D’Alessio
Italian
2nd Place: Emily Augustine, Scotty Holland, Annie Kennedy, Hayeon Ru, Katherine Thomas, & Charlie Yost
Du willst mich kussen (You want to kiss me) by Die Ärzte
German
3rd Place: Davis Blankenship, Jenn Martin, & Jack Sparkman
Rata de dos Patos (two-legged rat) by Paquita La Del Barrio
Spanish
WHOLE CLASS ACTS
1st Place: French 103B
Ne m’en voulez pas (Don’t blame me) by Khaled
French
2nd Place: Italian 103A
Il più grande spettacolo dopo il big bang (The biggest thing since the Big Bang) by Jovonatti
Italian
3rd Place: Russian 300
Nino by Oleg Vinnik
Russian
