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Jen M. Pangilinan
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3 divas and a beatboxer
by Jen M. Pangilinan - May 8, 2007 - 12:00am
Now it has come down to this: Three black divas and a white hip-hop beatboxer. That’s four talented singers who will try to outdo each other to make...
American Idol: This year’s batch better than last year’s?
by Jen M. Pangilinan - February 10, 2007 - 12:00am
We saw the best singers. We saw the worst. We saw countless of auditions from the first four cities — Minneapolis, Seattle, Memphis and New York —...
The lucky 3
by Jen M. Pangilinan - December 9, 2006 - 12:00am
Six months ago, Gian Magdangal was working as a marketing events officer in a telecommunications company, Mau Marcelo was a band singer in Lucena and Jan Nieto was a customer marketing manager in one of the...
The new American Idol: Hicks is it!
by Jen M. Pangilinan - May 26, 2006 - 12:00am
From the moment Chris Daughtry was eliminated in the final four of the finals of American Idol (AI), there was no longer any doubt as to who will become the next American Idol. And so it came to pass that 29-year-old...
The American Idol mania
by Jen M. Pangilinan - April 4, 2006 - 12:00am
How will you know if a show is popular? There’s the ratings. If a whopping 33.2 million viewers tuned in to watch one TV show and that tally was nearly two million viewers higher than the combined average posted...
Lessons from American Idol
by Jen M. Pangilinan - March 24, 2006 - 12:00am
The best thing about watching American Idol (AI) is each week televiewers get to learn new lessons on how to be the best singer. Where else can you get no-nonsense tips on how to be a star than from the show that...
And the winning pair is...
by Jen M. Pangilinan - February 24, 2006 - 12:00am
For 12 weeks, we’ve seen three batches of celebrity contestants as they strut their stuff on the dance floor trying to win the nods of the judges, and to impress the studio audience and the TV viewers in what...
Will AI’s new season be as popular as the first?
by Jen M. Pangilinan - February 12, 2006 - 12:00am
American Idol (AI) has constantly been the top-rated talent search in the US for the last four seasons. Now that season five has begun, fans expect that the show will offer something greater than the last. AI...
Live 8 global concerts to make world poverty history
by Jen M. Pangilinan - July 1, 2005 - 12:00am
Sir Bob Geldof made world history by spearheading Band Aid and Live Aid in 1985, which showed the world how music can raise consciousness and cash in a fight against famine. Now, 20 years later, Sir Bob Geldof is...
Sakada premieres on TV after 30 years
by Jen M. Pangilinan - June 24, 2005 - 12:00am
Thirty years ago when the Philippines was still under martial law, Behn Cervantes decided to make a socio-political film that focuses on the imbalance between the peasants and the hacienderos. This controversial...
American Idol: Who will be ‘it’?
by Jen M. Pangilinan - April 4, 2005 - 12:00am
People are already guessing who the Top 3 will be in this season of American Idol. Last year, it was Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo and our very own Jasmine Trias who ruled the Top 3 spots. But things have changed...
From crooners to rockers
by Jen M. Pangilinan - February 20, 2005 - 12:00am
It’s a hodgepodge of styles in this season of American Idol. Crooners. Rockers. Balladeers. Divas. Country singers. Hip-hop artists. Showgirls – such is the group of 193 hopefuls who went to Hollywood for...
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