Charice Pempengco
Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco simply known by her screen name Charice Pempengco (born May 10, 1993) is a Filipina singer who was the third place on the first season of Little Big Star and became popularly known because of YouTube. Charice joined Little Big Star in 2005 when she was only 12 years old. She was eliminated right away from the singing contest but was chosen to become a part of the wildcard round where she strived her way up to become a finalist. She was the consistent top scorer in the final rounds but ended up only as the 3rd place winner.
Charice started to become known in the cyberworld when FalseVoice of YouTube posted her performance of Whitney Houston's hit I Will Always Love You which she performed in Little Big Star. Many YouTubers thought her performance was fake and that she was only lipsynching because of her unbelievable vocals. Another video that became a hit was a face-off video of her and equally talented America's Got Talent's winner Bianca Ryan. These videos paved way and became instrumental for her to be recognized by Ten Songs Productions, a record company based in Sweden. Charice then travelled all the way to Stockholm in June 2007 and recorded seven songs, among which were 3 cover songs, Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You, Kate Bush's original Running Up That Hill, and Stay of Shakespears Sisters, plus four originals namely Amazing, All The Money In The World, It Can Only Get Better, and Born To Love You Forever. These songs will be soon released digitally.
A few months later, FalseVoice channel then released a video of her singing the Dreamgirls' anthem And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going which earned her an invitation from one of the biggest television networks in Korea, SBS in October, to join a talent show called Star King where she performed the same song. The Korean audience was wowed by her jaw-dropping performance that made a lot of buzz throughout their country. And this made a lot of viewers post her Star King performance on YouTube which made her become more popular that even American TV network E!'s The Daily Ten featured her Star King performance first with "A Star Is Born" headline on November 14, 2007 episode, then placed her on the Hollywood Royalty segment as "A Queen Is Born" on November 16th episode. The same performance video was also featured in the Ellen DeGeneres show on November 28, 2007 where Ellen showed web videos of different people she wanted to guest on her show. After seeing Charice's video, Ellen did a standing ovation and even imitated her singing gestures. It has been confirmed that Charice will soon be flying to LA to guest on the said show.
On December 19, 2007, Charice appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show and sang 2 songs, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and "I Will Always Love You".
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