She was called a total package by the judges of the Guyana Talent Search Competition more than once and the talented Nia Angelique Allen, one of the ten winners of the competition, has garnered a following of her own owing to her many power performances.
Nineteen-year-old Nia, who grew up in Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown, put on a show for each airing of the competition that became a treat for fans to look forward to. The Guyana Talent Show was her fourth competition, her first being when she was just eight years old. That competition, she said, was called Kidstage and she was already in it when her mother learnt that the only way to win was if the contestant paid.
“I vividly remember my mom saying, ‘If I have to pay for you to win, then you are going to lose today because I know how talented you are and I know I don’t have to pay for you to win’. So even though I was down about not winning, I knew that it wasn’t because I wasn’t talented but because the rules changed in the middle of the competition and that was something I had to learn from a very early age,” said the singer.
