Speaking with EastMojo, Chanchui who belongs to the Tangkhul community said that “I knew the competition was coming up soon but wasn’t sure of participating as it was a virtual platform. However, I wanted to at least give a try and see and that was how I landed at the competition.”

There were three stages of the selection process – online audition, regional rounds and grand finale and each participant was required to sing a song of their choice and recorded in a video.

For the grand finale, artistes were selected through 50% Google voting and 50% likes on their videos which were uploaded on KCCI Instagram page.

And for the vocal competition, Chanchui, who is also the present reigning queen of Miss Spring 2019, Manipur, performed a song ‘Eight’ by IU Ft Suga and garnered huge fans on the social media platform.

On being asked about the challenges faced while learning the Korean song, Chanchui said that “Learning the language wasn’t as hard as I grew up listening and watching Korean Hallyu wave. But I still had to practice a lot to get the correct pronunciation and accent by finding out the in-depth meaning of my sing and resonating with it.”