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MARK VINCENT, 15-year-old opera singer from Caringbah in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, has won Australia’s Got Talent on the 22nd of April 2009 and the top prize of a quarter of a million dollars!
Mark Vincent and 12-year-old JAL JOSHUA were the last two acts remaining after
William Campbell, Danik Abishev, Nobel Lakaev, Cameo Rascale, David Splatt and Red Hot Rhythm were eliminated from the competition.
MARK VINCENT was raised by his grandfather from three months of age. His grandfather recognised his talent and encouraged him to foster it through singing lessons. Mark’s grandfather became ill, and it became his dying wish for him to perform on Australia’s Got Talent. Sadly he never got to see him live out that wish, but Mark drew on his love and encouragement from his audition through to last night’s winning performance.
MARK says ‘I know it sounds weird, but when the smoke came up during my performance I looked up and past the audience and pictured the two of us together. I could see his arm around me and it was just the two of us. It was like we were up in the clouds’.
MARK was happy just to have made it to the Semi Finals and subscribed to his grandfather’s favourite saying that ‘nothing great is ever easy’. But the hard work leading to, and during, the series has paid off and Mark now knows opera singing is something he wants to do for the rest of his life.
MARK plans to finish Year 11 and 12 at De La Salle College, Caringbah and then wants to head overseas to visit his Italian relatives. His dream is to study at the Conservatorio di musica Giuseppe (the Milan Conservatory) – the leading musical institution in Italy that educated alumni Giacomo Puccini.