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Shopper Does Karaoke at Sam's Club, Goes Viral
This woman fearlessly took the karaoke mic at Sam's Club and belted out a soulful tune. To be honest, I was not expecting that amazing voice to come out of her mouth. Someone needs to get this girl a record deal!
Kirsten Spruch
07.02.19

Most people don’t expect too much when they leave to go shopping at Sam’s Club. The main things the popular grocery store has to offer are large quantities of stuff, decent prices, and if you’re lucky, a couple of free food samples here and there. Okay, we’ll admit it, that is the main reason why we go there.

Without trying though, Sam’s Club just took it up a notch — now they offer dinner and a show. Which is pretty convenient because let’s be honest, no one really enjoys grocery shopping. It is a mundane task… until now at least.

Christina Kokonis-Viggers and Amanda Lasher, who are from New York, were shopping at the Ulster wholesale store in the Hudson Valley when they decided to liven up the place a bit. Suddenly, thanks to these two, food shopping wasn’t so tedious anymore.

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While the two ladies were shopping, they came across a karaoke machine. Luckily enough, they discovered that the machine had a Bluetooth feature that allowed them to connect it to their cell phone. After that naturally came karaoke time.

32-year-old Christina, who decided to do the performing while Amanda filmed, had just about zero shame when taking the mic. Tons of surrounding shoppers? No big deal.

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She started to sing a beautiful rendition of “Maybe This Time” from the musical Cabaret, which really showed off her major pipes. She was actually a really great singer, which made it that much more entertaining!

The footage of this happening naturally went viral on the internet after Amanda shared it on Facebook. It has been viewed over 12 million times and has garnered a whopping 105k likes, 28k comments, and over 177k shares.

Who needs a stage when you have a Sam’s Club karaoke machine and a voice that big?

After the huge success of the clip, Christina talked about it with ABC 7.

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“We were just goofing off and my phone is like a walking karaoke machine so we were like, ‘hm, why not,'” Christina shared with ABC 7.

“There are people that were stopping by and they just stood there the whole time,” she continued, which you can actually see happen in the footage below. Fellow shoppers were in true awe of her stunning performance.

Amanda recalled, “Afterwards she got like this great applause. That was amazing.”

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After the video went viral, Christina has been riding a little wave of fame, too. She said that she has been receiving praise from fans all over the world. Additionally, she has also been receiving several calls from talent recruiters from several radio stations and America’s Got Talent.

It looks like the song she chose is actually extremely fitting for her personal life and career right now. Christina has a true passion for singing and wants to now use this as an opportunity to grow and make her singing dreams come true.

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While she works on those dreams, she also works at Upstage Productions, a non-profit whose mission is to
provide an educational and creative environment for collaboration by producing high caliber theatrical productions.

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Amanda said from the beginning that this clip would blow up, while Christina always thought the opposite. They were originally expecting it to get a maximum of a thousand views… And boy did they underestimate themselves!

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She also spoke with Hudson Valley News Network. She told them, “I’m overwhelmed because there are so many women who are just messaging me left and right and saying, ‘We love you’ and ‘This is amazing.’ That’s really great to see there is this camaraderie between women.”

We are so glad that Christina’s dreams are finally coming true. She’s a real talent who deserves it! Maybe we’ll see her on America’s Got Talent in the near future!

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