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April Llave is officially one of the top young vocalists in the country.
The 13-year-old Winnipegger has made it to the top 6 of YTV’s series The Next Star, a youth-oriented talent contest searching for the country’s best singer aged 15 or under.
Making the next-to-final cut was thrilling for the Grade 8 Ecole Lansdowne student, but it wasn’t without its bittersweet moment as she had to say goodbye to some friends who didn’t make it, including fellow Winnipegger Dane Bjornson, 11, who was in the top 16 with her.
“When they got cut I was pretty upset. I was really great friends with some of them. To see them just go, it was disappointing. They were really fortunate they were in the top 16, that was far, but to see them walk out and leave it makes me sad because I’ll miss them so much,” Llave said, over the phone from Toronto prior to Tuesday’s airing of the show.
Llave has been living with her grandmother in an apartment in Toronto for the past month during the taping. She is currently in the process of making a video for her forthcoming single, set to be aired on Sept. 5.
The new few weeks of the show, which airs Mondays and the occasional Tuesday on YTV, will feature Llave getting a makeover, working with her producer, making the video and singing a duet.
There are no more elimination rounds in the series. Viewers now get to vote for the winner online at ytv.com with the results announced during a live finale Sept. 25.
