Limelight

By Audie See Mia Japson, 15, really wants to be a singer who writes her own songs, and puts them all in albums that she can truly call her own. She is just in junior high school. But she has been willing to compromise just so she can break into the recording scene legitimately. She allowed herself to record Vehnee …

While in Bangkok, Thailand last week for a fashion show of Michael Leyva creations, model-actress Heart Evangelista wanted to pull back the hands of time to come home soon because she missed her husband, Senator Chiz Escudero and her dogs.  (Boy Vilasanta) 

Action superstar Rhene Imperial is Male Star of the Night at the RF3 world event billed as “Rebirth of the Stars” held at the SMX Convention Center in Mall of Asia Arena. In attendance were the owner of the company, Malaysian Datu Nazerie Omar and Country Manager Allan Taunan. (Boy Vilasanta)

by Boy Villasanta When music master Felipe M. de Leon talks, everybody listens. His words are taken seriously not only by Filipinos but the whole world as well. Because Felipe de Leon aside from an erudite person is a compassionate artist as well. During his tenure as Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the agency …

Two-time Paris Olympics gold medalist Carlos Yulo has been the center of controversy and a conversation piece from among pundits and observers about his pronouncements against his own mother, Angelica Poquiz Yulo. Carlos lambasted his mom for her unauthorized withdrawal from his bank account. Even if the mother has already apologized to him in public, the Olympian continues to say …

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 …