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Samsung holds Superstar grand finale
The winner receives the prize from Samsung team.
Samsung Electronics, a mobile handset manufacturer, held the grand finale of 'Samsung Super Star Contest' on December 7 at Hotel Sheraton Dhaka, says a press release. 'The Samsung Superstar' is a venture to promote the upcoming singing talents of Bangladesh, which coincides with the recently launched Samsung Beat Disco M2513 mobile phone. In the opening speech, Lee, Managing Director of Samsung Dhaka Office, said "This kind of initiative has been taken by Samsung to promote the singing talents of Bangladesh as well as the launch of the new music edition phone. We are confident this will give a new meaning to the brand image of Samsung Mobile in this Country". Zakiullah Shahid, Managing Director of Electra Telecom BD, authorised reseller of Samsung products, hoped that the contest would help find out real singing talents of the country and give them hope to reveal their talents in near future. As part of the launch campaign, auditions for the singing contest were held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) from September 9 to 11 this year. A total of 10 finalists were selected to perform in the grand finale of the Superstar contest. "In any competition there will be only one winner, but our objective is to find out the hidden singing talents and help them to make a path to be successful in the future. Thus we have ten new talents", the release said. Md Shamsul Alam Chomok clinched the esteemed competition and won Tk. 1, 00,000 and a Samsung Beat DJ Touch Screen Phone, while each of the nine finalists received a Samsung Beat Disco Phone. Partho Barua, Fahmida Nabi and Hyder Hossain were the judges of the competition.
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