Fatin Shidqia

Fatin Shidqia Lubis (born July 30, 1996), better known as Fatin Shidqia or Fatin is an Indonesian singer and actress who won the first season of the Indonesian version of the The X Factor in May 2013, securing a 1 billion rupiahs (around 88,150 USD) recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia and released her debut single "Aku Memilih Setia", which debuted at number one on the iTunes Indonesia Album Chart.

Fatin was born in Jakarta and resides in South Jakarta, Jakarta. She is a student of SMA Negeri 97 Jakarta. She began singing at age two, according to her mother.

In 2012, Fatin auditioned for the first season of X Factor Indonesia with the song "Grenade", originally sung by Bruno Mars. She amazed the judges in her audition and received a lot of positive feedback among social media users, advancing to the next round. Ahmad Dhani said that he loved her voice, and her audition has since garnered 4 million views on YouTube (as of October 2013), with several other videos that if in total reaching over 20 million views.

Soon after, she advanced through the first day of bootcamp, where she performed "Rindu" and advanced through the next day. On the second day, acts were given dance lessons by choreographers. The judges then split the number of acts down to two groups, 22 acts through to the next day, and remaining 50 acts must perform once again, with an a cappella performance. Fatin didn't do well on Stage Act, so she had to do the a cappella performance. She performed Paris (Ooh La La) and advanced through the next day. On the bootcamp 3 she performed "Pumped Up Kicks". She was one of seven contestants in the Female Under 26 category to perform at judges' houses stage of the competition, for Rossa and her guest judge Maia Estianty, performing the song "Cintakan Membawamu Kembali". She advanced into the Showcase, where she performed "Diamonds". She was put through to the Gala Live Show, where she performed "Rumour Has It". She advanced to the Top 12. She performed "Pudar".

On March 8, 2013, she performed "Girl on Fire" sending her into the top 10. On March 15, she performed "Don't Speak", and sending her into the top 9. She performed "Perahu Kertas and advanced to the top 8. She sang Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain" in week 6 and Duffy's "Mercy" in week 7 and received positive comments from the judges on both performances. The next week, she performed "Jalan Cinta" and duet with Vina Panduwinata sang "Logika". On Live Show 10, She performed "Pelan - Pelan Saja" and "Lovefool", both performance received positive comments from the judges.

She later advanced to the Finale round, in which she performed "Katakan Tidak" (with Afgansyah Reza), "Stay", and her Winner's Song "Aku Memilih Setia".

On May 25, 2013, it was announced that she had finished the competition in first place and become the winner of first season of X Factor Indonesia.

Source: Wikipedia