Kettering Teen Wins Ohio Has Talent!
 
 
Kettering Fairmount High School freshman Alex Wunder won the 2013 Ohio Has Talent! competition, held Feb. 9 at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Van Wert.
 
Wunder sang and danced his way to victory with his performance of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons' 1975 hit, "December 1963" ("Oh, What a Night"). He takes home $500 and the title "Ohio Has Talent Champion."
 
Second place was Courtney Bettinger of Coldwater who covered Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire." She earned $250 for her performance. Third place went to Jon Albert of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who hip-hop danced his way to earn a $100 prize.
 
Honorable mentions went to 12-year-old Michaella Johnson of Van Wert, singing a medley of songs from Disney's "Princess and the Frog." Also earning honorable mention was the country music duo of Paul Luft and Ben Tuttle, singing "All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down," by the Mavericks.
 
2012 OHT winner Cameron Jones returned to perform with his band, which included an eight-year-old drummer, while audience votes were being compiled.
 
Ohio Has Talent! is a benefit show to support Community Health Professionals' Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center.
   
Check out video from this and previous years on the Ohio Has Talent! YouTube channel.
 


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