SINGAPORE – The music is pounding inside the gilded ballroom of Hotel Montecito in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
Audiences whip out their phones as Singaporean Laura Lee – clad in a sparkly red frock that shows off her lean physique – begins singing and doing the salsa to Michael Buble’s Sway.
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