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Andi: What she is, what she is not

June 7, 2010 | 12:00am

Andi Eigenmann is a feisty young woman. She is also a stunner. Up close, freckles on her face shimmer like stars dancing around a crescent moon in a magical night. She has a gaze that pierces and a voice that roars. When every nymph in the business whispers like a geisha, this girl speaks in her full alto to everyone within a five-kilometer radius and a confidence and exuberance that are delightful and refreshing.

Here are a few things about Andi:

1. As a child, she remembers an instance when she wanted her mom (the iconic Jaclyn Jose) to buy her something and when she didn’t get it, she lay on the floor and screamed `til thy kingdom come. Now, that she has learned how hard it is to earn money, the screaming toddler has mellowed and has become a sensitive and reasonable young woman.

2. She keeps a journal and she loves to write. She wants to take up creative writing in the future. Andi is one of the most lucid, fluid and fluent conversationalists among her peers I have interviewed.

3. Her first crush was a neighbor, a boy named Miggy. She was 16. She didn’t quite know how to behave in his presence. Once, instead of inviting him to chat, she asked him to play basketball with her. As a young girl, she played frisbee and she loved to swim.

4. Andi was a fashionista; she still is. She didn’t like being hostaged by trends. She liked being different and original.

5. She adores and loves her mom.

6. She adores and loves her dad.

7. Yes, she was aware mom and dad were not together and she was fine with that. She was showered with love and she couldn’t complain.

8. Her first love didn’t quite work. The guy is an actor with initials V. B.

9. She wants to master the craft of acting. “I want people to know that I’m the daughter of my parents. I love this job. I’m not pressured that both my parents are brilliant actors. I will work hard to be one.”

10. She is amused that people call her Agua. She feels that she has delivered a good job as an actor.

I love this girl Andi!

Award-winning pianist at Philam Theater

Good news for classical music lovers from my good friend Pablo Tariman: Oliver Salonga will have a concert on Friday June 11, 8 p.m. at the Philamlife Theater, UN Ave., Ermita, Manila. Oliver is a two-time first prize winner of the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) and is a holder of a Master of Music in Piano Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Under the guidance of 2001 Van Cliburn Silver Medalist, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, he was awarded the Sadie Zellen Piano Prize in Cleveland and won the gold medal in the 2008 Joenju International Piano Competition in South Korea. He is presently continuing his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music as an Artist Diploma candidate.

Oliver’s Manila program includes Mozart’s Twelve Variations on Ah! vous diria je maman, K.265 and Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330, Ravel’s Poeme Choreographique: La Valse; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue No.23 in F Major, Op.87; Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat Minor, Op.36 (1931) Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No.4 in F-sharp Major, Op.30 and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No.7 in B-flat Major, Op.83.