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Joey Albert brings her Filipino chart hits to Millennium Place
It was an accidental, phenomenal career."
Pop and jazz singer Joey Albert was performing with a show band called The New Minstrels in the Philippines after leaving university when she was discovered in It was one of those lucky, fateful moments that happen all too rarely.
"I sang for fun and the success was unintended," she recalls. "My mother had told me, 'You can sing for three years and after that you get a proper job,' which at that time singing was not, apparently."
Out of it came an offer for her to go into the recording studio and Albert begged her mother for the opportunity, and again was given parental support.
"And the company promoted the record and the second release was a huge hit, very unexpected. And things just progressed," Albert says.
"I started winning awards (including the best female vocalist in the country's music industry Cecil Awards), getting concert offers and the recordings just kept gett
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Carlos Fuentes
What was your childhood like, growing up as the son of a diplomat?
Carlos Fuentes: Well, it was packing and unpacking a great deal. Also, a challenge to your capacity of adaptation. Being the son of a diplomat, you are constantly forced as a child to change schools, language, friends, ambience. So I had to go from Spanish to English to Portuguese, back to Spanish, back to English, make new friends — but it was challenging. Well, it makes you a person. I&#;m not unhappy about my childhood. On the contrary, I am grateful for it.
What kind of a kid were you?
Carlos Fuentes: I was a very studious young man. As a little boy, I read a lot. That was solitary in a way, because I knew my friends wouldn&#;t last more than two or three years, then another change, new friends. So I had to build my own inner world through reading, movies, radio at the time. Radio was so important in the life of kids in the United States in the s, when I was growing up here. So it meant rea
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Janno Gibbs
Filipino actor, comedian and singer-songwriter (born )
In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Ilagan and the surname or paternal family name is Gibbs.
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| Born | Janno Ronaldo Ilagan Gibbs () September 16, (age&#;55) Manila, Philippines |
| Other&#;names | Mokong, The (Philippine) King of Soul |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | Melissa Gibbs (sister) Teresa Loyzaga (sister-in-law) Princess Loyzaga (sister-in-law) Chito Loyzaga (brother-in-law) Joey Loyzaga (brother-in-law) Carlos Loyzaga (father-in-law) Vicky Cuerva (mother-in-law) |
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| Years active | –present |
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Janno Ronaldo Ilagan Gibbs (born September 16, ) is a Filipino singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. He was a regular host of GMA Network television shows SOP Rules, Nuts Entertainment, E