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Vincent Bueno gained international fame when he competed in the The Musical! Die Show, an Austrian Broadcasting TV ORF project in November 23, 2007. It's a reality based talent show featuring the contestant's theatrical dancing skills and abilities which is then judged by the televiewers and voted on thru phone or SMS. He performed a lot of songs like "Hair" , "I Wanna Be Like You" of Jungle Book, "Superstar" of Jesus Christ Superstar, "Why God Why?" of Miss Saigon, "Singin' in the Rain", and the German "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" from Mary Poppins.

On the finals of The Musical! Show, Vincent garnered 67% of televotes and won first place and earned the top prize 50,000 EUR ( 3 million PHP). His winning pieces were "Music of the Night" from the Phantom of the Opera and "Grease Lightning" from the Musical Grease.

Vincent Bueno was born in Vienna, Austria on December 10, 1985 to Cora Bueno ( a nurse) and Tony Bueno, a vocalist and a lead guitarist of a 1970's band. His musical inclination was encouraged at a very young age. He played piano, guitar,drums, bass drums at age 11. He graduated from Vienna Conservatory of Music with a degree in music and performing arts and has also taken-up special courses in acting, dancing and singing. Bueno is fluent in speaking the Filipino language and currently is working on doing some stints with ABS-CBN back in the Philippines.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bueno

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