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Philstar.com MUSIC Interviews: Acel and Champ

August 6, 2012 - 2:20pm

There comes a point in naturally progressing creatures to spread their wings and fly. Evolution makes it so. In the case of...

Music

Champ returns with Synergy

October 31, 2010 - 12:00am

Six years later, with songs like The Day You Said Goodnight, Kung Wala Ka, Broken Sonnet and others, Champ Lui Pio is prepared to kick off his solo career and to return to what he does best.

Entertainment

Hale sings Kundiman

By Baby A. Gil | November 6, 2009 - 12:00am

I do not know who chose the name but I read somewhere that Hale became Hale because while searching for names for the then new band, the group found a word that means strong and healthy.

Entertainment

Hale and their music from within

By Rhia de Pablo | January 25, 2007 - 12:00am

In today's youth-driven music industry, only a few artists get to truly stay within the epicenter of admiration of the listening and viewing audience. And one of them is Hale, the band whose hits captured the hearts...

Freeman Cebu Entertainment

Twanging guitars, pretty pop melodies

By Baby A. Gil | September 20, 2006 - 12:00am

The new group Blades has an interesting story as to how they got their name. These guys originally called themselves Bubblegum. Not that they performed teeny-bopper oriented bubble gum tunes. They really do the...

Entertainment

Rockestra: A fusion of band and orchestra music

By Boy Abunda | August 18, 2006 - 12:00am

In the magnificent world of art where rules hardly exist and co-existence of paradoxes flies! Yes! In fact, fusions deemed avant garde or cutting edge are encouraged, even applauded. After all, how would art remain...

Entertainment

An old band with a young sound

By Baby A. Gil | April 3, 2006 - 12:00am

I think of the new hit tune Sugod by Sandwich as a close relation of Orange & Lemon’s Pinoy Ako. Not that there is any similarity in the themes of the songs or between the interpreters. Pinoy Ako is all...

Entertainment

Very close to Kyla’s heart

By Boy Abunda | November 28, 2005 - 12:00am

"Ang gagaling ng mga bata!" gushes Kyla. The R & B princess is talking excitedly about her new show, Popstar Kids, a for kids only version of Pinoy Pop Superstar. Popstar Kids premiered Nov. 13 over...

Entertainment

Panalo ni Yasmien, inire-reklamo ng isang natalong banda!

October 6, 2005 - 12:00am

Sa 23.1 percent rating na nakuha ng SOP last Sunday, obvious na inabangan ng husto ang resulta ng 2nd SOP Music Awards. Nakita rin ito sa maraming taong pumuno sa UP Theater.

PSN Showbiz

A trip to Edgar’s Parokya

By Baby A. Gil | September 9, 2005 - 12:00am

It has been more than 10 years since Parokya ni Edgar (PnE) entered the local music scene. Yet the band, made up of Chito Miranda on lead vocals, Gabriel Cheekee and Darius Semana on guitars, Buwi Meneses on bass,...

Entertainment