Jenny Ball, from Blackpool, England, has won the 2019 Karaoke World Championship. Some 43 finalists from around the globe competed on a stage at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo on 27–29 November. According to The Japan Times, Ball outsang more than 30,000 contestants to reach the finals and wowed judges with her renditions of Queen’s “The Show Must Go On” and Jennifer Hudson’s “And I Am Telling You” to take home the gold.
Photo: Oy KWC Organization LTD.