(PHOTO ALBUM ADDED) Wrangling permission from my loving wife of 32 years was a snap, even if she knew that I would be spending Valentine’s evening with somebody who was so dear to me, but her knowing how this little darling lights up my whole being all the more made it easy for her to even encourage me to go ahead on my own… Read the full story

Charice has refined the Michael Jackson dance moves that won our hearts in the “Carousel of Hope” practice session.  She mesmerizes the Showtime audience with new moves in addition to the famous “Moonwalk”.  Read the full story

WOW. Charice and Billy Crawford opened the show with a stirring rendition of FloRida and Nelly Furtado’s  “Jump”. They really got the audience moving. Then Charice sang a duet with Arnel Pineda to “It’s a Whole New World”. Read the full story

Charice appeared on the Philippine morning show “Umagang Kay Ganda” (Such a Beautiful Morning), Monday, February 1st.  She sang Beyonce’s “If I were a Boy”.  It is a pop song written by Toby Gad and BC Jean, and produced by Gad and Knowles for Beyonce’s third solo album, I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008). Read the full story

Without even trying, Charice is winning hearts over in S. Korea with her energetic Dance Party video which now has over 27,000 hits in 5 days and counting. “Sorry Sorry” is a very popular song in Korea and THE TOP K-pop song in the Philippines. I guess K-pop = Korean pop? It seems Charice knew what she was doing by posting this video, it will only gain her more popularity with the Koreans and the Asian market, and in fact is being viewed by countries around the world. Read the full story

Charice is known all around the globe. Filipino media call her ”The international singing sensation”. However, Charice’s fans, wherever they live, are mostly of Filipino origin, and it is in this community of overseas Filipinos that she is really well-known. Read the full story

With close to a thousand, three hundred votes cast as of this writing, the runaway winner for our 2009 award is none other than Filipina singing sensation Charice Pempengco. Read the full story

Vote for Charice in the category: People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Recording Artist.

Here´s how to vote: text AWIT MMS FEMALE/2 for smart @ 2952 or text AWIT WP FEMALE/2 for Globe/sun @ 2982 or click here awitawards.com for more details. Read the full story

Charice singing her own rendition of the song “Halo” from Beyonce at the first ever Mc Happy Day Fun Run last November 30, 2009 at McKinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig. Kids and adults joined the races. They became the first McHappy Day Fun Run Champions and received prizes from McDonald’s. Read the full story

Charice performed at the PMPC (Philippine Movie Press Club) Star Awards.  The Star Awards for Movies and Television was established in 1985 by the PMPC and is the Philippines’ counterpart to the Golden Globes award. Voters consist of movie publicists and movie and entertainment writers. Charice sang a duet with Arnel Pineda, Read the full story

Watch Charice on ASAP 09 celebrating Pinoy Pride including Arnel Pineda, Apl De Ap, Lea Salonga, Jed Madela, Rhap Salazar and Efren Penaflorida, CNN Hero of the Year 2009.

“Our planet is filled with heroes, young and old, rich and poor, man, woman of different colors, shapes and sizes. We are one great tapestry. Each person has a hidden hero within, you just have to look inside you and search it in your heart, and be the hero to the next one in need.”– Penaflorida

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Charice is competing with Whitney Houston, The Black Eyed Peas, Michael Buble. Journey, James Taylor and others for Best Show Musical Performance 2009 in the Oprah Winfrey show.  Oprah nominated Charice on the strength of her performance of Note to God,which reached the top 10 and raced to the top 10 downloadable songs on iTunes and amazon.com after the song debuted on the show. Read the full story

(CLEAR HALO VIDEO ADDED) As reported by Chasters from the Philippines, the Meet and Greet was a successful event. Charice sang Fingerprint, Note To God and Halo. She gave interviews too. People lined up for autograph-signing and mingled with her fans. The event was specifically the launching of Sennheiser´s CHARICE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED EDITION MICROPHONE, Read the full story

Charice will appear as a special guest in a special holiday event organized by the Asian Journal Foundation at the Pasadena Civic Center on December 6th, 2009. The show will feature the Filipino-American Symphony Orchestra (FASO) performing traditional holiday songs both in English and Tagalog.  The event will also feature renowned soloists and a mixed Filipino chorale group and children’s choir. Read the full story