Vanessa Hillman (b. 1996) is a young Canadian performer and singing contest finalist of Filipino and English-Canadian ethnicity.
Born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, Vanessa appeared in elementary school productions and was accepted into a regional choir at age ten. She first entered singing contests at about age 11 and quickly found herself among the finalists at Royal City Idol, Port Moody Idol, Canada Place's Canada Day "Oh Canada" anthem singing contest, and PNT (Philippine Asian News Today) Idol 2008 and 2009. She was interviewed and sang with two other PNT singers on a Filipino Canadian radio program at 96.1 FM CHKG radio in British Columbia 26 April 2008. She was among the top 30 children performers in the Vancouver edition of YTV's The Next Star in both 2009 and 2010 out of a field of 800 and 550 respectively and appeared in one of the on line videos. She has continued as a guest singer at subsequent PNT Idol contests and joined the six member PNT "Wonderkids" or "PNT Singing Champions" which performed as an opening act at the June 13 2010 Vancouver stop of Sarah Geronimo's international Record Breaker concert tour.
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