Karylle stars in Singapore action drama
By Dolly Anne Carvajal
Karylle was not disheartened at all when she didn’t land a part in “Miss Saigon.”
Karylle was not disheartened at all when she didn’t land a part in “Miss Saigon.”
Visiting the set of “El Presidente” at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bagac, Bataan, transported me back to the Spanish era. Lead star ER Ejercito was in character (as Emilio Aguinaldo) when I chatted with him. “This film is grander in scale than ‘Asiong Salonga’—with a bigger budget, too,” he said, beaming.
The comeback trail for singer Chad Borja is full of exciting possibilities, judging from the kind of music he performed last week at 19 East in Sucat, Parañaque.
Chad Borja, the highly regarded Filipino singer who took a long break from the music scene while being treated for thyroid cancer, felt it was right to stage a comeback. Four months ago during a routine checkup, his doctors broke the good news. “They said I could now do whatever I wanted. It’s been 12 years since I fully recovered,” he told Inquirer Entertainment recently.
There are two ways of looking at “80289” (’80 to ’89), a recent concert series at the Music Museum that looked back on the soundtrack of the 1980s generation of Pinoy youth.
The music of the past four decades never really left us. More often than not, we hear songs from the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s — on radio, in club gigs and big concerts. Lately, it’s the ’80s that have been generating a lot of attention. We remember the sold-out concert of the British duo [...]
