Stacy
LAST SATURDAY night definitely belonged to petite Sabahan Stracie Angie Anam when she emerged champion of Akademi Fantasia 6 at the packed Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Selangor.
The 18-year-old had the audience rooting for her superb vocals and stage performance, soon after she performed her first ballad Atas Nama Cinta and the brand new song Aku Stacy.
Big winner: Akademi Fantasia 6 champion Stracie Angie Anam or Stacy, as she is more popularly known, wants to record an album that can showcase her versatility as a singer.
Even the critics for the night – Fauziah Ahmad Daud, Ning Baizura and Adlin Aman Ramlie – were full of praise for the talented Kadazan girl from Penampang, Sabah.
Stacy, as she is known on the TV show, had been leading the pack in terms of SMS votes since the seventh concert (there were 10 in all) and members of the media were pretty sure that unless the girl performed horribly at the finals, she would triumph over the rest.
And what great news for Sabahans. After waiting for four seasons, Stacy managed to make them proud.
Every year, since the second season of Akademi Fantasia, there have been at least three participants from Sabah who have managed to reach the finals, never winning the top spot, though.
These included Adam, Linda and Mas (from AF2), Felix, Yazer, Marsha and Ekin (from AF3), Lotter, Velvet, Rich, and Nora (AF4), and Noni, Ebi and Candy (AF5). That's quite a number of talented Sabahans!
The official results of the final showed that Stacy received the most SMS votes, and it was a massive win too with 43%! (The next closest competitor was Mohammed Idris Mohd Zaizizi (Riz) with 18 % of the votes.
Stacy, a part-time singer in Penampang, received prizes valued at RM733,734, which includes a four-room bungalow at A Famosa, Malacca, a Peugeot 307 XS sponsored by Naza Motors, RM25,000 cash from Hotlink, holiday package to Italy sponsored by Mayfirst, and to New York by Maybelline. She also took home a Sony Playstation sponsored by Astro and the AF6 trophy.
“I really don’t know what to say except I’m very grateful and thankful to God,” said Stacy in tears, on Saturday night after she'd picked up her prize.
“I just can’t wait to share my win with my family. This is the first time that someone in my family has won something big.
“I just can’t wait to see my family’s reaction!” said Stacy.
Prior to AF6, Stacy had teamed up with her brother, Camellus De’lelli Anam, for another talent-reality show called Gang Starz (Season One) and they managed to reach the semi-finals before they were booted out.
“I don’t think I’m better than the rest,” Stacy humbly offered. “I’m just lucky tonight. I believe that all my four friends in the finals are really good.
The four finalists celebrate with the champ.
“All five of us must have our own strengths to have gotten this far.”
Stacy remembers vividly the advice principal Ramli MS had been drilling into them all this while.
“He said, 'You think you are good but there are people out there who are much better than you’,” Stacy said, adding that through the show, she had many experiences to savour.
“I have learned so much here at the Academy, especially from the principal and the teachers. They have taught me a lot and I don’t know how I can repay them.
“Hopefully, one day, I will know how to and I will be given a chance to return their kindness.”
Stacy is upset that she will have to leave her new-found friends at the Academy after more than two months of living together and bonding. But she's got a lot to look forward to as well.
Now that she has won, she would love to record an album.
“If the opportunity arises, I want an album that features different genres such as rock, ballad, jazz and R&B because I want to hone my versatility,” said Stacy.
For those who have been watching Diari Akademi Fantasia (the weekly diary-type programme in between AF performance shows) they would surely have noticed that Stacy was the most hard-working student at the Academy.
“Am I really hard-working? I guess I went to the Academy because I wanted to learn.
“At the Academy, I was given the chance to gain knowledge for 10 weeks and I didn’t want to waste that chance,” said the petite girl (she stands at 155cm) who hopes to be able to sit for her SPM exam soon.
“I missed out on the exam last year because I was juggling between singing part-time and schooling and at the end, I quit school to earn money to help out my family,” said Stacy, the fifth of six siblings.
“I did not quit school because I like singing more. It was more because of financial constraints faced by my parents (father Anam Bayar and mother Agnes Kaloos are both odd-job workers) that I decided to pursue singing.”
Before the next hurdle, however, Stacy will have lots of time to savour her current win.
“I’m still digesting the whole experience of AF6 and actually winning! I’m just so happy and proud and can’t wait to see my family!
The 18-year-old had the audience rooting for her superb vocals and stage performance, soon after she performed her first ballad Atas Nama Cinta and the brand new song Aku Stacy.
Big winner: Akademi Fantasia 6 champion Stracie Angie Anam or Stacy, as she is more popularly known, wants to record an album that can showcase her versatility as a singer.
Even the critics for the night – Fauziah Ahmad Daud, Ning Baizura and Adlin Aman Ramlie – were full of praise for the talented Kadazan girl from Penampang, Sabah.
Stacy, as she is known on the TV show, had been leading the pack in terms of SMS votes since the seventh concert (there were 10 in all) and members of the media were pretty sure that unless the girl performed horribly at the finals, she would triumph over the rest.
And what great news for Sabahans. After waiting for four seasons, Stacy managed to make them proud.
Every year, since the second season of Akademi Fantasia, there have been at least three participants from Sabah who have managed to reach the finals, never winning the top spot, though.
These included Adam, Linda and Mas (from AF2), Felix, Yazer, Marsha and Ekin (from AF3), Lotter, Velvet, Rich, and Nora (AF4), and Noni, Ebi and Candy (AF5). That's quite a number of talented Sabahans!
The official results of the final showed that Stacy received the most SMS votes, and it was a massive win too with 43%! (The next closest competitor was Mohammed Idris Mohd Zaizizi (Riz) with 18 % of the votes.
Stacy, a part-time singer in Penampang, received prizes valued at RM733,734, which includes a four-room bungalow at A Famosa, Malacca, a Peugeot 307 XS sponsored by Naza Motors, RM25,000 cash from Hotlink, holiday package to Italy sponsored by Mayfirst, and to New York by Maybelline. She also took home a Sony Playstation sponsored by Astro and the AF6 trophy.
“I really don’t know what to say except I’m very grateful and thankful to God,” said Stacy in tears, on Saturday night after she'd picked up her prize.
“I just can’t wait to share my win with my family. This is the first time that someone in my family has won something big.
“I just can’t wait to see my family’s reaction!” said Stacy.
Prior to AF6, Stacy had teamed up with her brother, Camellus De’lelli Anam, for another talent-reality show called Gang Starz (Season One) and they managed to reach the semi-finals before they were booted out.
“I don’t think I’m better than the rest,” Stacy humbly offered. “I’m just lucky tonight. I believe that all my four friends in the finals are really good.
The four finalists celebrate with the champ.
“All five of us must have our own strengths to have gotten this far.”
Stacy remembers vividly the advice principal Ramli MS had been drilling into them all this while.
“He said, 'You think you are good but there are people out there who are much better than you’,” Stacy said, adding that through the show, she had many experiences to savour.
“I have learned so much here at the Academy, especially from the principal and the teachers. They have taught me a lot and I don’t know how I can repay them.
“Hopefully, one day, I will know how to and I will be given a chance to return their kindness.”
Stacy is upset that she will have to leave her new-found friends at the Academy after more than two months of living together and bonding. But she's got a lot to look forward to as well.
Now that she has won, she would love to record an album.
“If the opportunity arises, I want an album that features different genres such as rock, ballad, jazz and R&B because I want to hone my versatility,” said Stacy.
For those who have been watching Diari Akademi Fantasia (the weekly diary-type programme in between AF performance shows) they would surely have noticed that Stacy was the most hard-working student at the Academy.
“Am I really hard-working? I guess I went to the Academy because I wanted to learn.
“At the Academy, I was given the chance to gain knowledge for 10 weeks and I didn’t want to waste that chance,” said the petite girl (she stands at 155cm) who hopes to be able to sit for her SPM exam soon.
“I missed out on the exam last year because I was juggling between singing part-time and schooling and at the end, I quit school to earn money to help out my family,” said Stacy, the fifth of six siblings.
“I did not quit school because I like singing more. It was more because of financial constraints faced by my parents (father Anam Bayar and mother Agnes Kaloos are both odd-job workers) that I decided to pursue singing.”
Before the next hurdle, however, Stacy will have lots of time to savour her current win.
“I’m still digesting the whole experience of AF6 and actually winning! I’m just so happy and proud and can’t wait to see my family!
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