Iza Calzado with her father, late TV director-choreographer Lito Calzado. Image: Instagram/@missizacalzado
Award-winning actress Iza Calzado paid tribute to her father, the late TV director-choreographer Lito Calzado on Father’s Day.
This is the 12th year that the “Starting Over Again” star will be celebrating Father’s Day without her “daddy,” who passed away in November 2011 due to liver cancer.
In an Instagram post, Calzado thanked her father for showering her with so much love. “Thank you for always wrapping me in your warm, sweet and comforting embrace,” she wrote in her post’s caption.
The Kapamilya actress also shared how she’s able to give so much love to four-month-old daughter Deia Amihan because she learned about genuine love from her father.
“You taught me how to express love so genuinely and I am able to show my child so much love because I learned from the best,” explained Calzado who—like in previous posts—would declare herself “forever a daddy’s girl.”
“I love you! [heart emoji],” she added as she capped off her Father’s Day greeting.
In January, just days before she would give birth to her first child, Calzado penned a heartfelt birthday message to her father. In her post, she would ask the late TV director to keep her and her baby safe during birth, adding, “We want to feel you with us, dad. [heart emoji].”
In the same post, she wished that her daughter would inherit the famed choreographer’s “warm, charming and calming energy.”
In an interview with “Magandang Buhay” last month, the actress shared how her daughter has the “Lito Calzado energy,” explaining how there’s something about her child that kind of reminds her of her father.
Before the death of her father, Calzado lost her mom, Mary Ann Ussher, 10 years earlier in 2001. EDV