......May 26 categories ang 2007 Box Office Entertainment Awards. Narito ang listahan ng iba pang winners sa iba't ibang categories:
Film Actor of the Year - Robin Padilla (Till I Met You)
Film Actress of the Year - Maricel Soriano (Inang Yaya)
Prince of Philippine Movies - Sam Milby (You Are The One)
Princess of Philippine Movies - Toni Gonzaga (You Are The One)
Concert King - Ogie Alcasid (Forever After)
Concert Queen - Regine Velasquez (Forever After)
Male Recording Star of the Year - Christian Bautista
Female Recording Star of the Year - Sarah Geronimo
Most Popular Recording Group - Bamboo
Most Promising Recording Group - Kamikazee
Most Popular Love Team - Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson (First Day High)
Most Promising Male Star - Marky Cielo (Till I Met You)
Most Promising Female Star - Maja Salvador (Sukob)
Most Promising Male Recording/Concert Artist - Brenan Espartinez
Most Promising Female Recording/Concert Artist - Yeng Constantino
Most Promising Dance Group of the Year - EB Babes (Eat Bulaga!)
Most Popular Novelty Singer - Willie Revillame (Wowowee album/"Boom Tarat")
Most Popular Child Actor - BJ "Tolits" Forbes (Enteng Kabisote 3)
Most Popular Child Actress - Ella Guevarra
Most Popular Film Producer - Star Cinema
Most Popular Screenwriters - Chito Roño/Chris Martinez (Sukob)
Most Popular Director - Chito Roño (Sukob)
Most Popular TV Program - Majika (GMA-7)
Most Popular TV Program Directors - Eric Quizon & Mac Alejandre
Ang dance group na SexBomb ay elevated na sa Hall of Fame dahil sa limang sunud-sunod nilang pananalo bilang Dance Group of the Year. _________________
..hirap ay di iindahin lahat ito ay gagawin..
..romantic love nuh eui mi so reul ta go nae ge ro wa..
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Sky’s the limit for Yeng Constantino
When she won the first season of Pinoy Dream Academy, 18-year-old Yeng Constantino knew she would be in for a roller- coaster ride as the first-ever Grand Star Dreamer. However, she didn’t know just how exciting said ride would be.
Since her big win, many exciting things have happened to her, not the least of which was receiving a Platinum Record Award in recognition of her performance on the charts. Bannered by the first single (and title track) Salamat, her debut solo album sold 30,000 copies a mere two weeks after its release. Such an achievement is something every musician wants, which is why Yeng was grinning from ear to ear as she thanked everyone who had a hand in her debut solo album’s success.
In addition to that, she was named the Most Promising Female Recording Artist of 2007 by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation, an award that further cemented her status as one of the music scene’s fastest-rising stars.
On the same day that Yeng received the Platinum Record Award, she shared the ASAP ’07 stage with her idol, Sarah Geronimo. She sang some of Sarah’s best-loved hits, namely “Forever’s Not Enough” and “I Still Believe In Loving You.” Meanwhile, Sarah sang “Salamat” and the fans’ favorite “Hawak-Kamay,” among others. Of the experience, Yeng had only this to say, “I am really very happy, especially because of the chance to sing duet with her.”
When asked about the rumors that she and Sarah are starring in a teleserye together, she said that she looks forward to the possibility. “Nothing definite, but I hope it pushes through.”
But that’s not all she’s looking forward to. She recently landed a solo endorsement deal with a top telecommunications company and is looking forward to shooting commercials and posing for billboard ads.
At the moment, she is juggling her hosting and performing duties on ASAP ’07 with shows at venues across the country. Recently, she performed with Cebalo (a band composed of her fellow Pinoy Dream Academy alumni Panky Trinidad, Davey Langit, Yvan Lambatan and Eman Abatayo) at Club O.
She has also been busy with various out-of-town shows, namely her Japan tour with the Headmaster’s Honor List of Six (her first out of the country gig). After Japan, they will be heading to the US for a five-city tour in April.
Her career isn’t the only thing on the upswing. Her love life is looking up as well, as rumor has it someone is setting her heart aflutter these days.
You’d think that with all of these things under her belt, she’d have no dreams left to chase. But for Yeng, that is so not the case?the ride is just beginning.
[Quote From And Credit For][ TaFaCa Of ABS-CBN Community Forum]
Yeng Constantino receives the Platinum Record Award from Star Records' marketing manager Cynthia Roque and Dream Big Productions' business unit head Laurenti Dyogi during the ASAP '07 recently.
Photo: Ruel Mendoza
Yeng Constantino's album goes platinum
Pinoy Dream Academy's Grand Star Dreamer is named Most Promising Female Recording Artist.
By Ruel Mendoza | Monday, March 5, 2007
In just two weeks, Pinoy Dream Academy Grand Star Dreamer Yeng Constantino's debut solo album entitled Salamat has already reached platinum. Ito ay patunay na isa siya sa fastest-rising stars ng recording industry ngayon.
Nakabenta ng more than 15,000 units ang album ni Yeng sa unang linggong release nito sa market, giving Yeng a Gold Record Award. A week later, nakakuha na ito ng Platinum Record Award dahil higit-kumulang na 30,000 units na ang nabenta ng debut album niya.
Sa programang ASAP '07 in-award ang Platinum Record Award ni Yeng at kasama pa nga niya ang kanyang idol na si Sarah Geronimo sa pagtanggap nito.
"Sobrang saya ko po, kasi bukod sa nag-platinum na ang album ko, naka-duet ko pa ang idol kong si Sarah. Dream come true po ito para sa akin kasi idol ko po talaga siya," ngiti pa ni Yeng.
Dahil sa phenomenal success ng kanyang debut album, si Yeng ang napili ng Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation as Most Promising Female Recording Artist.
Ang 10-track album ni Yeng ay ni-release ng Dream Music ng Star Records. Pito sa mga kanta dito ay original compositions ni Yeng, kabilang na ang hit song na "Hawak Kamay."
http://www.pep.ph/articles/guide/364/ _________________
..hirap ay di iindahin lahat ito ay gagawin..
..romantic love nuh eui mi so reul ta go nae ge ro wa..
Yeng does not want to be compared to Kitchie and Barbie
Yeng says she is not yet worthy of the "Rock Princess" title.
Ruel Mendoza | Saturday, March 17, 2007
As much as possible ay ayaw makumpara ng Pinoy Dream Academy Grand Dreamer na si Yeng Constantino sa female rock stars na sina Kitchie Nadal at Barbie Almalbis. Ayon kay Yeng, hindi siya dapat maihilera sa mga idols niyang sina Barbie at Kitchie dahil sobrang taas daw ng tingin niya sa mga ito.
"Huwag naman akong i-compare sa dalawa kasi marami pa akong bigas na kakainin para maabot ko ang status nila bilang mga singers. Nakakahiya kasi. Ayokong isipin nila na humihilera ako sa mga tulad nila. Idol ko po sila kaya mananatili akong tagahanga nila at di ako puwedeng pumantay sa kanila," very humble na sabi ni Yeng sa pictorial ng PDA scholars last March 14.
Marami ang nagsasabi na deserving na raw matawag si Yeng bilang "Rock Princess" dahil dalawa na ang hit singles niya mula sa kanyang debut album na Salamat for Star Records. Kailan nga lang ay nabigyan si Yeng ng Platinum Record Award, ngayon ay nakaabot na sa Double Platinum ang kanyang album.
"Yung title na Rock Princess, parang hindi ko pa deserve ‘yon," sabi ni Yeng. "Tama na yung tawagin akong Grand Dreamer. Yun na lang. Ayokong may magsabi na nang-aagaw ako ng title. Para lang ‘yon kina Barbie at Kitchie, para sa mga idols ko."
Naging successful ang naging show ng PDA Top 6 sa Tokyo, Japan kamakailan, kung saan nakasama nila sina Sam Milby at Piolo Pascual. Ngayon ay naghahanda naman ang grupo para sa kanilang two-week US tour this April.
Inamin ni Yeng na sa sobrang hectic ng kanyang schedule ay nawawalan na siya ng oras at panahon para sa kanyang pamilya.
"Nagi-guilty na nga ako kasi minsan kasi kapag umuuwi ako, tulog na sina Mama at Papa. Hindi ko na sila nakikita ng buong araw. May time nga na one whole week na hindi kami nagkita. Hanggang text-text na lang at tawag sa phone," kuwento ni Yeng.
"Kaya minsan, kung puwede ko silang isama, isinasama ko sila. Naiintindihan naman ako ng mga parents ko kasi alam nilang para sa amin itong ginagawa kong pagpupuyat sa trabaho," sabi pa niya bilang pangwakas.
Good news, bad news from ‘out there’
FUNFARE By Ricardo F. Lo
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
*snipped*
And now, the happy/good news: Yeng Constantino, top graduate of the ABS-CBN reality-TV show Pinoy Dream Academy (PDA) is having a show in New York in August but tickets are almost sold out. “Now I know how popular Yeng is here in the US,” said Funfare’s New York correspondent Edmund Silvestre (news editor of The Filipino Reporter). “Tita Alice and Tito Red (Martinez), producers of the show, are very, very happy. They know that Yeng is popular here but they didn’t expect her to be that popular.” With Yeng in the show are fellow PDA graduates Ronnie Liang and RJ Jimenez, Jay-R, Angelica dela Cruz and Carlo Aquino.
Songwriting as a craft has always been near and dear to my heart. Not only because it's my bread and butter, but I firmly believe that the skill of invention (in this case, of music and of lyrics), is the utmost proof that we humans were made in the Creator's image. (A few Bible verses don't hurt either, but you get the idea.)
Years ago when I taught guitar, I always added basic music theory to my lessons, in the hopes that it would jump-start a writing binge in my students. I'd help them pick apart their favorite Eraserheads tunes chord by chord, just to help them see how Ely Buendia built the framework for "Ang Huling El Bimbo" or "Torpedo."
Wide-eyed with a newfound understanding of this magic, the kids would strum away at their guitars excitedly, with pen and paper nearby to serve as a net as they fish their imagination. Fast forward to here and now, where I write in celebration of the resurgence of Songwriting, and the long-forgotten stardom that could come with this skill. Of particular interest is the brilliance of singer-songwriter Yeng Constantino.
This young girl took a very different road to fame and fortune. Yeng is a solo singer with a unique voice, whose poignant and extremely popular songs struck a chord among millions of Filipinos young and old. She had the immense fortune of being introduced to countless families through the boob tube on a nightly basis (thanks to ABS-CBN's Pinoy Dream Academy), and though hard fought, her stardom bypassed the usual obstacles met by the traditional up and coming singer—no recording companies to woo, no slow and steady audiences to build in club gigs, no singing festivals to make a mark in. In a competition of up and coming talents, hers was arguably the least manufactured, and the hardest to fake—Yeng is a songwriter, and I think that's what won us over, and won it for her.
I was lucky to have worked with Yeng recently, when I was asked to arrange, produce and write the melody for Globe's "Kantabataan" theme song. When I found out who the talent was, I was ecstatic! I was about to co-write a Songwriting Festival's theme song, and Yeng, one of our best young composers, was singing it!
When she showed up at the recording studio (Hit Productions in Makati), she was shy and unassuming, a girl in her teens with the weight of her fame an unfamiliar burden. But behind the microphone, the sweet and soft-spoken persona gave way to a powerful and self-assured vocalist who knew her way around a rock song. She didn't need much in the way of guidance, and she was phrasing the words around her singing style, like a singer-songwriter would. Because unlike singers who grew up with the karaoke, merely mimicking the vocal parts verbatim, a songwriter would normally just have his or her guitar as accompaniment, and thus be more flexible with her singing. Her identity as a vocalist became easier to flesh out, because she would put her own spin on the accompaniment. As a result, it was one of my most enjoyable recording experiences—the song seemed so suited to her, it sounded like she wrote it!
So thanks Yeng, and good luck! I hope your success helps bring about the end of the cookie-cutter non-talents that the big networks used to peddle to the audience, and inspires our young singers to pick up a guitar or learn to play the piano. If they never write a song, at least their singing will be improved immensely. And if they catch the muse? Then they, like Yeng, will experience the incredible highs of composing, of walking the listener hand in hand into the melodies and words of our hopes and dreams.
‘Virgin pa po ako’ – Yeng
SANGA-SANGANDILA Ni Veronica R. Samio
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Eighteen years old na si Yeng Constan*tino pero, nakakagulat ang sinabi niya sa press launch ng kan*yang Rock Enroll: Yeng’s Rock to School (Back to School) Concert na ma*gaganap sa June 23, 7:30 NG sa Aliw Theater.
Sa tanong ng isang movie writer kung to*toong may anak na siya, sinabi ng PDA Grand Dreamer, “Virgin pa po ako.”
Hindi pa nagkaka-boyfriend kahit minsan si Yeng. Inamin niya na walang nanliligaw sa kanya ngayon. “Hindi pa raw time sabi ng papa ko. Tungkol na*man sa virginity, nani*niwala ako na dapat naghihintay ang lalaki bago niya makuha ito.”
Pero, hindi siya tomboy.
“Hindi po, malabo po.”
Mayro’n 19 production numbers si Yeng sa kanyang concert na magtatampok din sa mga kasamahan niyang sina RJ Rosales at Ronnie Liang. Walang mga ibang champions dahil gusto ng Dream Big Productions at ASAP Live na si Yeng lamang ang champion sa concert.
Nag-aaral na ring magsuot ng high heels si Yeng, para sa concert. Dalawang pares ang sapatos niya. Yung isa, nabali na ang ta*kong. Yung ikalawa, hindi kasya sa kanya dahil hindi siya kasama nang bilhin ng nanay niya.
Ang halaga ng tiket para sa Rock Enroll: Yeng’s Rock to School Back to School) Concert ay P800, P500 at P300. Mabibili sa lahat ng Ticketworld outlets.
‘Virgin pa po ako!’ - Yeng
June 07, 2007 05:39 PM Thursday
IMBES na tuksuhin, umani pa ng papuri sa press ang kontrobersyal na deklarasyon ni Yeng Constantino na virgin pa siya sa edad na 18.
Sa panahon kasi ngayon, obserbasyon ng dalawang senior showbiz writers, bihira na ang nakakarating sa edad ng Pinoy Dream Academy grand winner na wala pang “karanasan” sa opposite sex.
Paliwanag ni Yeng, never pa siyang nagka-boyfriend at magkagayunman, siya ang tipo ng babaing handang maghintay ng tamang panahon para sa ganu’ng bagay.
Sa binitawang one-liner, direkta ring napabulaanan ng singer ang malisyosong tsikang may anak na siya. Hindi rin daw totoo ang ispekulasyong lesbiana siya kaya nananatiling unattached hanggang ngayon.
Rocker man ang image, confident si Yeng sa sekswalidad at sinabi pang marahil kaya ganu’n siya magsalita’t kumilos ay dahil may kapatid siyang bading.
“Puro lalaki rin po kasi ang kasama ko sa banda (Morning Glory band). Saka, nu’ng bata po ako, tinuturuan ako ng tatay kong mag-basketball,” nangingiti niyang pagbabalik-tanaw kahapon sa presscon ng first major solo concert na Rock Enroll: Yeng Constantino’s Rock to School Concert, na nakatakdang ganapin sa Aliw Theater on June 23, 7:30 p.m.
Speaking of lalaki, pulos mhin din ang magiging panauhin ng singer sa naturang back-to-school concert. Kabilang dito ang Morning Glory band, sina Jay-R Siaboc, Ronnie Liang, Jay at Ruben ng Cueshe, Mark ng Shamrock at Cris Cayzer, kaya asahang rakrakan ang aalingawngaw sa Aliw Theater sa gabing ’yon.
Produced by ABS-CBN, Dream Big Productions at ASAP Live, mabibili ang tickets sa Rock Enroll... sa lahat ng Ticketnet outlets. May special promo pang buy-4-tickets-get-one-free para sa mga estudyante.
Yeng Constantino's first major concert to be held at the Aliw Theater
Jocelyn Dimaculangan
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
07:43 AM
Eighteen-year-old Yeng Constantino still has many goals to fulfill. The Grand Star Dreamer of Pinoy Dream Academy (PDA) intends to pursue a career in music, put up a restaurant in Marikina City, and open her own band studio. These dreams might seem lofty for some but for this former resident of Montalban (now Rodriguez), Rizal, no aspiration is unreachable when you have your heart in the right place.
In her solo press con at 9501 Restaurant at the ABS-CBN compound earlier today, June 6, the singer-songwriter told PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) about her aspirations for the future.
"Gusto ko po, music talaga. Gusto kong matutong bumasa ng mga nota. Para kung matapos man 'yong karera ko...hindi naman kasi panghabangbuhay ‘to. At least maging musikero pa rin ako, kasi ito naman talaga ang linya ko, nandito 'yong puso," shares Yeng.
With her first major concert entitled Rock Enroll: Yeng's Rock to School (Back to School) Concert scheduled on June 23, Yeng feels pressured but excited at the same time. The concert, which will take place at the Aliw Theater, is directed by no less than Mr. Johnny Manahan.
"May 19 prods [production numbers] po ako dito at lahat kasama ako," she points out. "Siguro po may five costume changes ako."
Her guests include Chris Cayzer, former PDA scholars Ronnie Liang and Jay-R Siaboc, Ruben Caballero and Jay Justiniani of Cuéshe, as well as Mark Tupaz of Shamrock.
NO TO HOME STUDY. The top scholar of PDA says that she prefers to enroll in a regular school instead of taking a home study course. "Ayoko ng home study kasi ‘pag home study, sa bahay mo rin gagawin yung homework and exams mo. Ayoko ng tinitingnan yung mga sagot sa libro. Saka gusto ko may mga kaklase, masaya yun eh. ‘Pag hindi na ako ganun ka-busy, mage-enroll po ako," she says, smiling.
Yeng, already a high school graduate, openly admitted that she tried to get into college but she was unable to get into the school of her choice. "UP [University of the Philippines] po. Kaso nga lang, nung unang UPCAT [UP College Admissions Test] ko, bumagsak po ako. Tres po 'yong nakuha ko dun, e. Baka mag-try ko po ulit.
"Noong year 2004, nag-UPCAT po ako...hindi ako pumasa, e. Kaya hindi natuloy. Tapos sabi naman nila, hindi naman daw po talaga kailangan 'yong UPCAT sa Music. Kailangan talaga medyo marunong ka lang magbasa ng nota. Kaya ‘yon po ang inaral ko. Nag-piano lesson kaso nga hindi namin kinaya kasi medyo mahal—P700 per session," narrates Yeng.
With values such as these—a willingness to continue her education and a passion for her chosen career—Yeng is being hailed as a good role model for the Filipino youth today.
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