Pentatonix mulls shooting music video in Manila

MANILA, Philippines – Grammy award-winning American a capella group, Pentatonix, has returned to Manila for the second time to perform for their Filipino fans.

The show, which is also part of the Pentatonix World Tour 2016, is set tonight at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

Aside from it, Pentatonix said they also consider shooting a music video in Manila or anywhere in the country, citing Filipinos fans as among their favorites.

“I actually feel like Japan and the Philippines are our favorite, I’d say places, where the fans are wonderful and they’re craziest,” Kirstin Maldonado of Pentatonix told Philstar.com in a press conference.

“It will be really cool to have a video here, where like all the fans come and we’re all singing and hanging out, so yes we're down [to make a music video here],” she added.

The group said they would also love to cover a Tagalog song and maybe collaborate with a Filipino artist since Filipinos are known to be good singers.

“We would definitely consider it [covering Tagalog songs]. We'd do a little cover with Gary V,” another member, Scott Hoying said.

According to Hoying, among their fond memories in the Philippines include eating balut and doing their very first concert here. He said the Filipino singing crowd energized them into a different level.

“I feel like it is really one of the shows we talk about the most that we'd reminisce back to and we love so much. We’re really excited to be here and we’re hoping this next show is gonna be just as awesome,” Maldonado echoed.

READ: Pentatonix: Manila is ‘the best singing audience’

Pentatonix promised a different concert from last year with the absence of the famous “chair-girl” performance but they said there’d be lots of singing with the fans.

The group composed of Maldonado, Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Avi Kaplan and Kevin Olusola became famous after winning the third season of NBC’s Sing-Off in 2011.

They have returned to the Philippines as a more mature artist group after winning Grammy awards, topping the Billboard chart and collaborating with artists such as Dolly Parton, Toddrick Hall, Daisuke Ono, among others.