Off to the "FINALS"

She made it!!! Norma made it to the final round of the Karaoke Contest in Toronto this past weekend. Her very long day Sunday was all worth it. Norma and her two friends (Lina and Lisa) managed to get to Toronto for noon that day, they sat through a Portuguese luncheon and then it all started, 30 contestants singing there little hearts out and our Norma was #27. The day earlier John, the kids and I, along with our good friends Patty and Enzo drove to the States, we shopped until we dropped and were simply to tired to go to Toronto with Norma the next day, but she knew that we were supporting her from Hamilton. Every few hours I called her on her cell phone to get an update on the contest. Nervous and excited, she waited until it was her turn to sing. She sang "If you've got leaving on your mind" by Patsy Cline. Then around 8:30pm we got the call, John answered the phone and with a smile told me "she made it to the finals". Excited as ever, she hung up and went to celebrate, I knew I would get the whole scoop of how her day went early Monday morning. Yup, I was right, Monday morning Norma called and still very excited explained how nerve racking it was to have to sit and wait all day for her turn to sing. She went on to explain there she was standing on the stage waiting to start and as she adjusted the microphone, "OH NO!!!" it broke apart. She broke the microphone, leave it up to Norma to cause disruption. Everyone laughed, the sound guy had to come up and help her reattach the microphone. Once everything settle down and as the music began again, "HOLD ON, she said "THERE'S NOW WORDS ON THE SCREEN!!! And yet again, Norma stopped the contest. Everyone howled as she made a big deal, and of course drew even more attention to herself. She didn't need the words, come on, I knew that and she knew that. She knows this song off by heart, she sings it every Saturday night at the Portuguese club, but she wanted the words on the screen so off went the sound guy again and helped Norma set up. Way to go Norma, good way to get the attention of the judges. At the end, she said, "IT WAS ALL OVER, " she said she doesn't even remember singing, it was over so fast. Finally it was time for the judges to call the names of the contestants who have made it to the finals. The first name they called was...............
"NORMA TARQUINI", in disbelief the place cheered, she couldn't believe she made it. Yup, here we go again, in 2 weeks Norma will be singing in Toronto at the FINALS. She has 2 weeks to pick and practice a song. CONGRATULATIONS NORMA!!!!
We're are off to the "Finals", Toronto here we come.

Posted by Nancy March 12, 2007.