Kalistani Major History

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La Sol Wins FOMAT
Singer's Career goes Stratospheric
Kaliburg, Ananto
July 7, 4888


La Sol, the newly crowned Queen of Kalistani Pop wins FOMAT X with a Perfect Score of 50, Returns home to Massive celebrity

La Sol is on her way to being the greatest star in the constellation of Kalistani Musicians with her victory at FOMAT X. "We have brought the crown back to Kalistan!" she said as she debarked the plane to tends of thousands of her fans who were assembled at Kaliburg International Airport.

"I was just hoping to even get a glimpse of her," said one young fan. "What an honor, what a symbol of National Pride!" La Sol becomes the Third Kalistani winner of the international music contest, joining Madysin Shakespeare, who won FOMAT II and D'ante and the Revolutionaries, who won FOMAT 5. For Kalistan, this means, in the 6 contests Kalistan has competed, they have won half of them.

"We are so proud of La Sol! She is a national star already and to add this great honor on top of it. La Sol has now surpassed her peers and has entered superstardom, said KRTVN Radio 6 DJ Edward Guttierez. "We have already decided to dedicate a whole week to playing her music, with contests all leading to the grand prize of winning a meeting with La Sol along with your friends, and being on the radio together."

For La Sol's part she was glad that the show was finished. "I just got off the GanJam and then we had to get read for the FOMAT. But I was ready, and when I got there Gaduri people were so welcoming. I got to tour the whole country and got to meet hundreds of people, who treated me like I had already won the contest. I guess they knew who I was down here! It really made my stay here so much easier, and I went into the show rested and nonstressed. I could really feel the fans carrying me. And then, I slept for two days," she said with a laugh.

La Sol will take a few weeks off work, and then she plans to return to the studio to record her 7th full LP. "We're gonna try to do something a little different," said La Sol, who described this project as sort of a Reggae in Egelian effort. "This record is going to feature a lot of dub and roots musicians, and we're just gonna have a chill experience, smoke some good herbs, and just lay down some good tracks. People have been pushing me to do dance tracks for so long, that I'd like to try something different."

The new record, which will be released on LTD, has already begun to attract notice. Both La Sol and LTD have agreed to release early tracks as singles to keep the attention on the Singer. "I am happy that I don't really have to work anymore, and can now begin to do things which aren't guaranteed to be commercial successes. I can really spread my wings a bit and fly around, rather than worrying so much about whether this or that is going to hurt my career." Indeed La Sol could retire now, in her early 30s and she will have already had one of the most successful careers of any musician in her genre, and in popular music.

No matter what, with the FOMAT win, La Sol's life in Kalistan will change forever. She is officially a contender for the Global Music Hall of Fame, a topic which will be revisited when she nears retirement from the profession. And meanwhile, we want to join the rest of the nation in welcoming home our champion, who competed successfully against excellent musicians from around the world. Congratulations to La Sol.

Attention now shifts to Kalistan's Global Music Hall of Fame once more as FOMAT XI will be held in Kalistan in 3 Years. "A FOMAT committee is being formed, and we will make an official invitation to the world," said Committee spokeswoman Jeanette Larson. "The committee we are looking at is made of executive event planners, music industry people and local officials from around Luxon. We will select a three person judging pannel and will formalize a judging method. Then we need to retrofit the GMHoF to accomodate the more than 35,000 person crowd we will expect for the show, as well as locking on accommodations and so forth. We haven't done a FOMAT since Madysin was the reigning champion, so there is a lot we have to relearn."