Limelight

By Audie See At 62, Concert King Martin Nievera can pull off a concert for two or three hours without his voice changing for the worse, such as his voice going hoarse and his body manifesting fatigue. Martin did very well in “The King 4Ever” at the Araneta Coliseum on Saturday night (Sept. 27). He himself describes the event as …

The new group is called Tribu, loosely translated as tribe, a kinfolk, a community, a people. In the local music industry, though, Tribu is a chip off the old block. Publicist Toots Tolentino informed that Tribu as a singing quintet traces its roots to the Aliw Award-winning cultural group “Tribung Pinoy” from the 1980s, led by the late Danny Dolor, …

Face of the Week In Cabatuan, Iloilo, we met a young man, MJ Pueyo, whom we found out sings well and really wants to be a pop singer. MJ has the looks, the height (5’ 9”), the body, and the personality of a showbiz idol. At 20, he looks like he is just in his late teens. Super handsomely boyish, …

Absence is one. What could be another source of making the heart grows fonder? What else, but fatherhood. A visit from the stork guarantees excitement from keeping each one apart. Yes, actor Zanjoe Marudo feels like his heartbeat goes haywire just thinking and wanting to see his newly born son, Baby M. Wife-actress Ria Atayde gave birth to their first-born …

Alvin Patrimonio, the heartthrob cager of the 90s, still has the looks and the charisma of the dreamboat (“dreamboy” for Pinoys who love to create their own terminologies) that he once was. The crowd still adores him wherever he goes. This, we fount out, when we joined him in gracing an out-of-town sports tournament in Bingawan, Iloilo, known as The …

By Audie See There’s another macho star who seems not to age at all: singing actor Gabby Concepcion.  Theoretically, he is of lolo (grandpa) age: 59. And he has a daughter who is now all of 39 years old: KC Concepcion, whose mother is, of course, Sharon Cuneta. KC, still single, has not given the ex-couple anu grandchild. And it …

Face of the Week We were recently in three towns and two cities of Iloilo: the towns of Bingawan, Calinod and Cabatuan as well as the cities of Passi and Iloilo.  We were there mainly to watch the first ever international concert held recently in Passi City Arena billed “Mania: The ABBA Tribute Band” in which our talent Ysabelle Palabrica …

by Boy Villasanta Instinct or excitement? Whatever comes first. It doesn’t matter to Filipino actor Zanjoe Marudo as long as he is skin-to-skin with his first-born son Baby M. As long as the fatherly thrill is there, Zanjoe is fine. Three days after Marudo’s wife Ria Atayde gave birth to Baby M, his dad took him in  his arms, rocked …

By Audie See Do you know that the leading man for all seasons Gabby Concepcion sings well and gets bookings as the main feature in unpublicized shows in various parts of the country? Singing sweetly but vibrantly in special events is how he keeps himself busy in between the TV serials he topbills with the likes of Marian Rivera and …

How do you solve a problem like opera? Considered a classical act, in which soprano Camille Lopez Molina perfectly delineated its form and content in a mediacon: “Opera isn’t only singing. It is also acting,” shared Camille. As if they’re not enough descriptions, opera has been labelled by many as an elite form of entertainment where only the coiffured and …