AleXa wins first American Song Contest

completemusicupdate.com:

As we gear up for the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend, K-pop singer AleXa has been crowned the first ever winner of the American Song Contest.

She represented the state of Oklahoma with her (very Eurovision) song ‘Wonderland’.Launched in March, and hosted by Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg, the competition has seen artists from all 50 US states, five US territories and the capital, Washington, DC, go head to head to have their song named the overall winner.

The show followed a similar format to Eurovision, although they stretched the whole thing out to an eight week series.Last night’s final saw the final ten entrants perform their song one last time, before AleXa was selected as the winner.

As with Eurovision, votes are cast by the public and a professional jury – the latter made up of 56 representatives of ten geographic regions from around the US.