NEW CHARICE HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO ADDED (courtesy of Indigo Toronto)
I know it’s just shy of 2 in the morning but I just couldn’t wait to post this entry. Today I had the priviledge of photographing Charice’s FREE Concert at the Toronto Eaton Centre.
We started the shoot with photos with contest winners from CHUM FM, Twitter and Indigo as well as interviews with various media including the filipino media community.
When I first got word I’d be doing the photos for Charice I wondered what kind of turn out we’d get for a relatively short performance. 200, 300 people I thought. Man was I in for a rude awakening! By the time the concert started it looked to be about 2000 people filling 2 levels of the Eaton Centre just outside of Indigo. People were screaming when we walked past on the upper levels to make it to the stage area. It was absolutely crazy!
I’ve got over a thousand photos I still need to go through from the shoot but if you wanna view the highlights you can click here.
She is an incredible performer and such a sweetheart!
Source: Roland Isberto Photography
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Watch Charice Highlights Video (courtesy of Indigo Toronto – Eaton Centre):
Charice Fever has taken over Toronto and Mr. Will-W.: Pop Maven. An estimated crowd of 5,000 lined up the stairways, rails and standing area allocated at the St. Albert’s Way entrance/exit of Toronto Eaton Centre. Among others, the Filipino community, old and young, were loud and proud in support of their national treasure who performed a handful of songs today at approximately 6:00 PM EST. The audience was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, with excitement peaking as she descended upon the stage on Level Two of the Shopping Centre, fully in view of the audience through the glass elevator.
Despite technical problems yet again with speakers and her microphone, the same issue which marred her MuchMusic MuchOnDemand performance yesterday, the endearing 18 year old finally got to perform showstarter I Love You after a false start, about 15 minutes after the show’s scheduled start time. She then went on to perform current single Pyramid (ft. Iyaz) without a hitch, before going into an up-tempo medley of Lady Gaga’s Just Dance, Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA and Michael Jackson’s Rock With You. Power ballad In This Song with its soaring high notes brought out a positive reaction from the audience before Reset, a track she co-wrote which rightfully should be a single off her debut self-titled album, capped off her performance in a pitch-perfect manner.
After thanking her audience which included Torontonians and those who traveled from out-of-town to see her, she was escorted back into the elevator she arrived in, guarded by a wall of Security Guards. She then got a quick well-deserved meal break after doing media all morning at outlets like Chum FM and CP24 before proceeding into her Meet & Greet at Indigo Bookstore which had to be closed off due to exceeded capacity. Aggressive Security Guards were seen ushering onlookers away, as they had clamoured to sneak a peek of the songstress through the store windows. Charice was all smiles despite the pandemonium.
Source: Mr. Will-W.:Pop Maven, Charice Performs at Toronto Eaton Centre
Charice performed at Toronto’s Eaton Centre earlier today. The line started at Indigo Books, Music & Cafe before it even opened this morning so people could obtain the coveted wristband (with CD purchase) for the privilege of getting Charice’s autograph after the show. The CD’s were sold out in a snap and the excitement continued to build throughout the day as people were Tweeting about the upcoming show and the crowd started to fill up Eaton Centre to capacity.
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Videos
- My Day w/Charice @Eaton Centre by MissFuturisticGirl / upload from chekthoon
- Charice’s Grand Entrance – no. 1 upload by danilooo / no. 2 – upload by tootsernest1
- MegaEwolf video “experience like being in the crowd as Charice and mom arrive at the venue.”
- Charice pre-interview with ChumFM uploaded by tjjt2010
Charice performs “I Love You”
video uploaded by Dozzy525
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Charice performs PYRAMID
video uploaded by tootsernest1
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Charice performs Just Dance, Party in The USA, Rock with You Medley
video uploaded by mrwillw
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Charice performs IN THIS SONG
video uploaded by tootsernest1
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Encore performance: Charice performs RESET and thanks the amazing Toronto crowd
video uploaded by MegaEwolf
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so noisy! cant even hear properly >.<
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I was close in my estimation (conservative as I am) of 5,000 fans because, I noted a new report saying 6,000 and watching the new video from WarnerCanada showed a vantage point that perhaps may even be more than 6,000. I could not see the whole crowd from where I was at the venue.
Anyway, I wanted to add that, driving home, I felt uncanny and warm in the mid-spring season in Canada…perhaps because of the overly enthusiastic crowd or the warm feeling that Charice had injected in my being. I jokingly confessed to my wife that, never had I stood skin-to-skin…front, back and sideways.. with another human being or other human beings for more than three hours aside from her in my entire life except today. And she laughed very loudly on our way home merrily towards the setting sun. LABYO CHARICE !!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTWcKrFkdkk&feature=player_embedded#!
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Watch this YouTube interview from a Miss Saigon and Les Miserables Broadway star from the Philippines. It’s a fitting words for your comment.
watch?v=zkYpyNk0N_Y
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@estrel2894,
the link goes to the Paul O’grady show appearance of Charice. Is that the one?
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@nequi,
I’m very sorry my dear. I’m not referring to you (chasters I assume) and the rest of the Chasters community there in the PI. I am referring to the people in the entertainment industry there, especially those in that ABS-CBN show,”ASAP”. I’ve seen too many incidents here alone in youtube where anyone especially who don’t know what’s going on there and don’t understand how and why all these “unfortunate” incidents there happen to Charice and why so often. It really looks intentional and not accidental or coincidental anymore. It easily makes one conclude that there is a conspiracy against Charice there. What I’ve been saying and pointing out are what we out here abroad see with our very own eyes and cannot believe it ourselves. And because we feel like Charice is our sister, our daughter and someone who carries our pride and honor, we naturally notice threats and assaults to her and take it seriously. I do not make “sweeping” statements referring to you or any of the Chasters in the PI. My fault for not being more specific and I’m sorry. May we “RESET”? LABYO!
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Walking towards Eaton’s Centre, we had a young Filipina lady heading towards the same direction in a hurry and I casually asked her if she was going to see Charice. She said, she was. She said, she just took some stuff from the car she and three friends rode on from Ottawa (capital of Canada and about 4-1/2 hours drive to Toronto). She added that the wristbands were all gone 20 minutes after 10:00 AM when the Indigo store opened and where people were all lined up since 7:30 AM. I was thinking to myself, “Wow! Charice must be really now a SUPERSTAR !”
Inside the Eaton’s Centre, there were about a hundred people milling around the venue, a few were sitting on the floor right upfront along the line, and the CHASTERS were already positioned on the upper corner level with their video camera in place. (I knew they were CHASTERS because they were wearing white shirts with blue CHASTERS printed on).
I left the wife at the front corner side while I went to the washroom and checked the Indigo store and bought 2 Charice CDs hoping to get autographed later. I was not expecting more than a few hundred or maybe (I was hoping), at least a thousand people to come.
Coming back, there were already about close to a hundred people and I checked my watch and it was almost 3:15 PM. I never thought that, I would be waiting 3 hours, standing up, to see “someone” perform. I never did this before in my life……not for any celebrity of any sort, even in politics…never mind entertainment…and at this stage in my life.
My wife sat on the floor (good thing she was wearing jeans) while I discussed politics, entertainment & whatever comes to mind with some of those around me to kill time. Slowly but surely, time passed and as I looked around, people were pouring from everywhere….mostly Fil-Cans but, there were whites, blacks, Asians, young and old. It dawned on me that we were lucky to be very early otherwise, we would only get a glimpse of Charice.
The rest is history. The videos are testament to this event.
Yes, I was there! First time to see Charice live! Among the thousands (I’d say close to 5,000) fellow Canadians on that sunny Friday afternoon of June 4th and Charice was worth the wait, the pain on my feet, amidst the deafening thunder of applause and maddening screams of the fans…. CHARICE HAS ARRIVED !!!
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Truly the crowd of a Super-Star!
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Thank you Topgun for posting your experience that very exciting day. Because I am here in Houston, it mean so much for me who loves Charice to have a feel of what it was like to see her perform live and the atmosphere surrounding the event.
She is definitely a very lovely young lady with loads of talents. DF struck the motherload of a musical phenom the day he discovered Charice.
Love your writing about Charice and can’t wait for your observation the second time she visit Toronto.
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picture #5 (IMG_6420-Edit) is a great portrait of her, with those nice warm skin tones, and you can even feel her charm exuding from that photograph – very well done.
the noise from the crowd was really deafening, and the non-Filipinos who were also shopping were wondering what or who those people were going crazy for, and you could see them asking around. And everyone came prepared with their cameras and video equipment.
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from 54 , 74 and now 151…LOL while looking at the number of spectateurs and the cameras focus on her!
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but when the music started and the crowd began to scream, and when you heard her voice amidst the din, you began to appreciate how big a phenomenon she was, being shared by everyone in attendance, each with exactly the same enthusiasm and reactions.
previously, I enjoyed her music and performances via YouTube on a personal basis, but sharing this live with other people, even from afar, gives me a new appreciation of “Charice Mania”.
while David Foster says that she is “undeniable”, I say that she is a juggernaut that comes in stealth, camouflaged by her petite physique and innocuous appearance and self-deprecating demeanor, only made apparent by the heavyweights who are backing her, and the effects you feel after she has fire-branded her name into your heart.
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