KEY POINTS

• Nhessica Weber grew up in the Philippines then moved to Queensland, Australia at the age of 20 when her mother remarried. After a few months, she moved to Melbourne to follow her passion in creative arts.
• Ms. Weber can sing in Tagalog, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Nihongo, and English. She also has vast experience in different styles of music including Christian contemporary music, jazz, pop, rock, contemporary folk, and musical theatre as well as dance expertise in ballet, jazz, tap, hiphop, lyrical, and Latin dance.
• A record number of new companies were launched during the COVID-19 pandemic according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. In the first six months of 2021 about 152,000 companies were registered, compared to almost 110,000 for the same period in 2020.