Just saw this from the Beeb, a video on an interview with Mary Jess Leaverland and at the end, she sings a sample song, the best Chinese song sang since goodness knows when, those so-called singers in HK really can't hold one note at all!
British student Mary Jess wins Chinese X-factor
Here's a vid (sorry, it's in Cantonese, but you can hear her sing the Mandarin songs and I still can't quite believe how good she was, and only 2 months to learn the songs!)