MIDNIGHT MUSIC: M-Star comes out on top

IT was a close-run thing, but in the end rapper M-Star won the vote in our Midnight Music competition.

M-Star, real name Liam Mousley (right), won 38% of the hundreds of votes cast on our website.

That was enough to just pip show tune singer Sam Shirtliffe to first place.

Liam, aged 14, wins a recording session with Rotherham singer-songwriter Jay Mya at the Music Factory.

Jay has also promised to write a special song for our winner.

He’ll also be performing LIVE, at the pre-event party for the Rotherham Hospice Midnight Walk on June 18.

And because the voting was so close, the Hospice’s party organisers have also invited Sam (15) to perform on-stage.

Liam, of Richmond Park Avenue, Kimberworth, was delighted by the success of his track, Dream Girl.

“I can’t stop shaking. I’ll start practising tonight!” he said.

A regular at the Winterhill Young People’s Centre, Liam says he is a rapper with a anti-gang message and his inspiration is hip-hop star Chipmunk.

He became interested in music through his big brother Damien and has already performed live several times in Rotherham.

Sam (below), of Warren Mount, Kimberworth, performed the song I know Where I’ve Been, from the hit show Hairspray in the competition.

A pupil at Winterhill School where she is studying music and drama, she is a member of the Steps Productions theatre group and will be appearing in a production of Annie at Rotherham Civic Theatre in July.

Her idol is American rapper and actress Queen Latifah, who starred in the film of Hairspray and Sam says her ambition is to appear in the West End.

Also appearing at the Parkgate party, which will help set the Midnight Charity walkers on their way will be Sadie Bates, who recently recorded a cover of Boys Like

Girls’ hit Thunder after winning a talent show at Wickersley Comprehensive recently.

That song was released on iTunes last week.

Topping the bill at the party will be Jay himself who said: “I am really pleased with the quality and variety of music that has been submitted by the entrants to the music competition.”