{"id":469,"date":"2022-08-10T02:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T02:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:58:33","slug":"wkt-names-sissi-thompson-executive-vp-tour-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/wkt-names-sissi-thompson-executive-vp-tour-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"WKT names Sissi Thompson Executive VP &#8211; Tour Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>World Karaoke Tour CEO and Commissioner&nbsp;Whitney-John Stuart is&nbsp;excited to officially announce the addition of Sissi Thompson as Executive Vice President of Tour Operations as the WKT&nbsp;prepares for its highly anticipated return to live events in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSissi Thompson is an exceptionally talented executive&nbsp;with&nbsp;a deep skill set that aligns with our commitment to delivering a&nbsp;first-class tour&nbsp;experience, as well as our shared passion for bringing the WKT&nbsp;back stronger than before\u201d, said Commissioner Stuart.\u201cWith Sissi as part of our executive team, our ability&nbsp;to deliver a top-notch experience for our singers, fans and partners will continue to grow. A tremendous amount of work has already been done with more exciting news to come as we prepare for 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her journey into the world of competitive singing began with the Talent Quest&nbsp;International&nbsp;Florida State Championships&nbsp;in 2015 where she made the Top 5.&nbsp;She went on to win the 2015 KWCUSA Ladies Florida State Championship and came top 10 at the National Finals. After moving to Ohio,&nbsp;she and her husband became KWCUSA Ohio&nbsp;State directors for 2 seasons&nbsp;before leaving in 2019.&nbsp;She was a Silver Medalist at the 2020 World Karaoke Tour&nbsp;Ultimate&nbsp;Team Championship. She was then tapped to become the Host&nbsp;of&nbsp;WKT\u2019s &#8220;Backstage&#8221;, the first talk show about karaoke and competitive singing.&nbsp;Most recently, she won Gospel Female Masters Vocalist&nbsp;of&nbsp;the year and Entertainer of the year at the North America Country Music International&nbsp;Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her&nbsp;new role as Executive Vice-President, Mrs. Thompson&nbsp;will assist in the management of&nbsp;day-to-day operations of the tour while directing strategic planning for business and tour&nbsp;operations on all levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"WorldKaraokeTour.com\">WorldKaraokeTour.com<\/a>&nbsp;and follow us on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Karaoke Tour CEO and Commissioner\u00a0Whitney-John Stuart is\u00a0excited to officially announce the addition of Sissi Thompson as Executive Vice President of Tour Operations as the WKT\u00a0prepares for its highly anticipated return to live events in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[44,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldkaraoketour.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}