The Wutz Up in the Philippines!

Kris Allen

MANILA, Philippines—“Singing live on television is the worst thing in the world. I’d rather do concerts,” said “American Idol” Season 8 champ Kris Allen in a press conference at the Eastwood Mall Park in Quezon City a few hours after arriving in Manila on Wednesday.

The 24-year-old singer-songwriter, who came with his four-member band, is performing in two shows dubbed “Musicfest 2010” starting tonight at the SM City Cebu North Open Parking 2, and tomorrow at McKinley Hill Open Grounds in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig. The gigs will also feature the acoustic rock group Boyce Avenue and “America’s Best Dance Crew” Season 1 winner Jabbawockeez.

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Lea Salonga

Although international theater actress and singer Lea Salonga’s forthcoming concert “Lea Salonga…Your Songs” is her only one in Manila in 2009, she intends to make it worth the wait by ensuring it will be the ultimate crowd pleaser.

Calling “Your Songs” the concert for the fans and by her fans, concert producer AmbientMedia and Lea are currently conducting an online poll via www.LEAyoursongs.com through which people could request for songs they want to hear from the superstar.

“We will choose songs that I don’t usually sing in my concerts or those that are already on DVD or CD. If I have to learn an all-new repertoire, I’ll do that just so my fans are happy,” she said.

Not one to hold a generic type of concert, Lea always comes up with an interesting concept for every show she does. Some of the themes she has used in the past are Broadway, OPM and standards.

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Charice Pempengco

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - It was a night music lovers will not forget.

International singing sensation Charice Pempengco did not disappoint tens of thousands of fans who came to watch her and other word-class performers at the “David Foster and Friends” concert on Friday evening (November 8).

Music fans were treated to love songs of music greats like Peter Cetera, who had performed in Manila last February and plans to perform again in Manila someday with Charice.

“I had some friends who told me, go to the Philippines. They will love you over there and it’s the truth,” Cetera said.

Meanwhile, American Idol winners Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken sang Foster classics. However, it was Charice who was chosen to end the show with a grand performance.

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Members of the popular rock band “Bamboo” have cried foul over reports that blamed them for the February 13 riot that critically injured a campus police at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.

“There are some articles that came out in the newspapers and some news clips [implying] na our concert aren’t safe because of that February 13 event in the UP Fair. First of all, it wasn’t a Bamboo concert but was the annual UP Fair,” Bamboo’s manager, Pancho Gonzalez, told “SNN: Showbiz News Ngayon.”

Reports said, while Bamboo was performing on stage, a group of teenagers had tried to force their way inside the concert venue, triggering the riot. Almost 20 people were reportedly injured including university police Ramon Mondrigo.  [Read full story...]

GARY Valenciano starts the new year with a huge bang, the same way he ended the year via a most remarkable concert called “Gary V: Live at 25″ at Araneta Coliseum. The acclaimed musical event will hold a much-requested repeat on Feb. 20 also at the same venue.

Because everyone can’t stop raving about the excellence of this production, it has got those who failed to catch this particular outing vowing they are not going to miss it the second time around. And the more exciting part is that even those who have seen the show last November are still as excited to watch the show again.

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Sitti will perform in a concert titled An Evening in December with Sitti tonight at 8 at the Music Museum. Joining her onstage are Christian Bautista, Richard Poon and Hiyas ng Pilipinas Children’s Choir.

Sitti is now a Backroom artist. She has successfully reintroduced bossa nova as a new kind of music to a modern era of listeners. Her string of best-selling albums like Café Bossa, Sitti Live!, Sitti In The Mix, and My Bossa Nova has captured the Filipinos’ interest in the bossa nova genre. Her Café Bossa led to the surge of bossa nova CDs and bossa-inspired OPM songs…

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