PPS Grand Champion

Jonalyn Viray crowned as the first Pinoy Pop Superstar.

Jonalyn Viray

WE Filipinos are superb at singing. Honest-to-goodness singing. And we start really young. So by the time we’re in our teens, some of us have become champion amateur singers. But some amateur singers make it big time, some never do. Will Jonalyn Viray make it?
Jonalyn, the GMA 7 amateur singing contest Pinoy Pop Superstar’s first grand champion, is only 15 years old and was the smallest among the eight contenders on Sunday night’s grand finals of the GMA 7 amateur singing contest Pinoy Pop Superstar. She was also the youngest.
Jonalyn won only for four weeks. She sang “I Wanna Run To You” for her second piece. She won for herself P1-million cash from Coca Cola, a house and lot from Filinvest, a Futura Classic Toyota car, and services worth several thousands of pesos from the Belo Medical Group and from Ricky Reyes’s chain of salons.
Jonalyn comes from San Mateo, Rizal, and is the eldest child in the family. Her father works at Purefoods. Both of her parents watched the show at the Big Dome, along with two younger siblings. Jonalyn is an incoming senior student at the Jose P. Laurel High School.
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