Celeste legaspi biography

Filipina singer and actress

In this Filipino name&#;for married women, the birth halfway name or maternal family name practical Kalugdan, the birth surname or kindly family name is Legaspi, and picture marital name is Gallardo.

Celeste Kalugdan Legaspi-Gallardo (born March 18, ) even-handed a Filipino singer, actress, film lecture theatre producer.^[1] She is an endorse for the rights of the artists. Her singles and albums reached cash or platinum status during the brutal, s and s. She is high-mindedness daughter of National Artist for Visible ArtsCésar Legaspi.^[2] She has been look after of the founders of the pursuing artist organizations: Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM), Culturtain Musicat Theater Productions, Performers' Rights Society of the Philippines,^[3] turf the OPM Archive.^[4] She is connubial to Nonoy Gallardo, an advertising administrator and one of the premier Fresh Pilipino Music composers.

Life and career

Legaspi (nicknamed Maricelle) is third of magnanimity five children of National Artist Cesar Legaspi and coloratura Vitaliana Kalugdan. She started singing during her kindergarten ripen and by , she started revelation professionally with The Ambivalent Crowd, ask ₱25 per performance.

While in faculty at St. Paul, she played justness lead role in One Legendary Evening and appeared in Show Boat bring in Magnolia followed by her performance whereas Nancy in the Philippine presentation promote to Oliver!. She later confessed that pretty up performance in Show Boat scared move up. "There I was, cracking every shady, unable to be heard from magnanimity musical accompaniment, with Mama holding knife attack to my sister Diana's hand. Importance a result I was disillusioned accomplice my singing and with my range then--nursing," Legaspi told in an discussion.

But the then year-old Legaspi didn't give up her singing. Her revelation career flourished upon shifting her compass to Communication Arts at Maryknoll Institute (now Miriam College). She joined Primacy Ambivalent Crowd, became a college measure out in , and married Nonoy Gallardo in March , with whom she has three children.

In , she left The Ambivalent Crowd and hitched the Up from Down Under Troupe as a soloist for a three-month stint at Wells Fargo. She verification became part of the Time Computer which at the time had unblended singer named Didith Reyes and Suffragist Castelo who would both conquer rank OPM charts in the years bright.

Legaspi's career rose further upon connecting the ASEAN Tour in followed get ahead of a solo concert at the Social Center of the Philippines' (CCP) Various Theater where Rolando Tinio featured prepare in Filipino translations of popular songs at that time, most of high-mindedness songs appeared in her Celeste Universal Songs Vol. 1 album. The ep featured Celeste's heartwarming Filipino renditions advice Minnie Ripperton's Lovin' You, Diana Ross' Theme from Mahogany, and The Woman Is A Tramp.

The impressive misuse was followed by successful dinner-theater presentations in of Manila, Manila which won her an Aliw Award for Get the better of Dinner Theater performance for that era. She also starred in Doon Po Sa Amin and Jesus Christ Prominence in , each garnering Best Blowout Theater awards.

Theater arts

After portraying loftiness lead roles in the two institution productions mentioned, Legaspi performed in honesty productions of the Philippine Educational Transient Association and the Cultural Center enjoy the Philippines. She sang the potential of the First Woman in significance play "Tales of the Manuvu" () produced by the CCP Dance Go out with, where she shared the stage letter Hajji Alejandro. Her other stage shop include an appearance in the prosperity musical Katy! () for the Indigenous Center of the Philippines' Tanghalang Pilipino, and the portrayals of Babae connect North Diversion Road (), Caridad bland the zarzuela Paglipas ng Dilim (), and Candida in Larawan (). Gibe most recent stage appearances include Si Dr. Dolly Dalisay at ang mga Ladybugs as the prostitute Leticia (), and in Ang Pag-uulyanin ni Olivia Mendoza as the trans woman Julia.^[4]

With talent manager Girlie Rodis, she was co-founder of Musical Theatre Philippines (Musicat), which produced seven musicals: Katy! (), Kenkoy Loves Rosing (), Alikabok (), Sino Ka Ba, Jose Rizal? (), Larawan, the Musical (), Fire H2o Woman (), and Saranggola ni Pepe () ^[5]

Along with theater icon Zeneida Amador, she was awarded as primacy first recipient of the "Natatanging Gawad Buhay!" Award given by the Filipino Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (Philstage). The award embodies her lifetime impost and marvelous efforts for the handiwork of original Filipino musicals which flourished for over two decades since representation s. Legaspi, being the founding chief of the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit and Philstage, was key in forming the Philippines' sole alliance of office performing arts companies and organizations.

Film and television

Legaspi appeared in films specified as Lino Brocka's Santiago (), Stardoom () and Sa Kabila ng Lahat (), Mamang Sorbetero (), Tatlong Purpose, Isang Anak (), Anak ng Pasig () and Ishmael Bernal's Wating (). She also sang the main keynote song of Kahit ang Mundo'y Magunaw (), a Manuel Cinco film foremost Pilar Pilapil and Christopher de City. She was part of the hallmark of the film Ang Larawan.

Legaspi is also a television actress. Give someone a tinkle of her earliest TV exposures denunciation when she was eight years an assortment of appearing in a Vicks commercial. Advance , she received the Sinag Distinction from the Pambansang Akademya ng Telebisyon sa Agham at Sining (PATAS) tail her performance in the TV abortive At Long Last Celeste, and fulfill the TV weekly musical Iba't-ibang Celeste. In , she also appeared hoax the RPN-9 drama series Cebu. Focal point , she portrayed as Maricel Soriano's protective and aristocratic mother in GMA-7's romantic drama series Ang Dalawang Wife. Real. In , Legaspi played prestige role of a Filipino-Chinese businesswoman celebrated Rowell Santiago's aunt in the ABS-CBN romantic drama series Can't Buy Efficient Love.

Recording career

Legaspi is a go well recording artist, having produced albums squeeze singles that reached gold and pt status during the s and savage. Her album Ako at si Celeste under Blackgold Records was awarded gilded, and produced hit singles "Saranggola ni Pepe", "Tuliro", and "Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal?". The Celeste album included "Mamang Sorbetero". Her albums Bagong Plaka, Lumang Kanta Vol. 1 and 2 albums under Wea Records both reached ethics double platinum mark.

She won various awards including the Outstanding Performance stakes from the Song Festival in Tokio, Japan, where she sang "Puso Mong Nagmamahal" (), Tinig Awards for stick up for entertainment (, , and ), near the Aliw Award for Entertainer chastisement the Year ().

Influences

Celeste Legaspi claims she is greatly influenced by Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Lena Horne, bid Ella Fitzgerald. During one of go in interviews she said that her brainstorm of music rests on elements pick up the tab blues and those which intend be carried break the monotony of pop congregation.

Discography

Singles

• "Ako'y Bakyang-bakya" / "Ang Buhay Ko'y Iyong-iyo" ()
• "Ang Puso Kong Nagmamahal" Memorial "Hanggang Wakas"
• "Basta't Mahal Kita"
• "Bingwit ng Pag-ibig"
• "Binibiro Lamang Kita"
• "Dahil sa Iyo" (also beplastered by Julio Iglesias, Nat King Cole)
• "Fiesta"
• "Galawgaw"
• "Halina't Magsaya"
• "Ikaw Kasi"
• "Kalesa"
• "Lab Na Lab"
• "Larawan ng Buhay" / "Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal" ()
• "Mamang Sorbetero" / "Kubling Hardin" ()
• "Minsan collide with Minahal Ay Ako" (, Theme exaggerate “Katy The Musical”)
• "Movie Fan"
• "Nasaan ang Palakpakan"
• "No Money, No Honey"
• "Only Selfless Love" (Theme of World Meeting Of Families Sensation )
• "Pagdating Mo" (2nd Place Winner, MetroPop Song Festival )
• "Saan Ka Man Naroroon" (also covered by Ric Manrique Jr.)
• "Sabado"
• "Sapagka't Mahal Kayo"
• "Saranggola ni Pepe" / "Lahat ng Gabi Bawa't Araw" ()
• "Sarung Banggi"
• "Tuliro"
• "Waray-Waray"

Albums

• Disco Dancing Moonlight (Pioneer Records, )
• PopSongs Abundance 1 (Pioneer Records, )
• Ako at si Celeste (Vicor Music Corp., )
• CelesteCeleste (Universal Records, )
• Bagong Plaka, Lumang Kanta (Universal Records, )
• Bagong Plaka, Lumang Kanta Vol. 2 (Universal Records, )
• This Is Out of your depth Song (Universal Records, )
• Koleksyon (Universal Archives, )
• Plakang Pamasko ni Celeste Legaspi (Universal Records, )
• Si Celeste Naman NgayonSapagkat Mahal Kayo: Tribute to Sylvia La Torre (Universal Records, )
• The 30th Year (Universal Records, )
• Bagong Plaka, Lumang Kanta Vol. 3 (Universal Records, )
• Ang Larawan Harmonious Soundtrack, BMG,

Compilations

• 40th Anniversary Celeste Legaspi Collection ()

Collaborations

• Pamasko ng Mga Bituin (Universal Records, )
• Parangal Kay Constancio C. Skid Guzman (Universal Records, )
• Salubungin ang Pasko (Universal Records, )
• Maayong Pasko (Universal Chronicles, )
• Ginintuang Diwa ng Pasko (Universal Documents, )
• Ryan Cayabyab Silver Album (Sony BMG Music, )
• Bongga! (The Biggest Retro OPM Hits) (Universal Records, )
• Bongga 2 (The Biggest Retro OPM Hits) (Universal Chronicles, )
• Kick, Push by Lupe Fiasco character Celeste Legaspi Magtaksil Man Ikaw (Bolero Medley) Bagong Plaka, Lumang Kanta Vol. 2 (Universal ) in Lupe Disaster, Food & Liquor, (Atlantic )

Filmography

Television/Digital

Movies

Concerts

• Concert be neck and neck the Cultural Center of the Land Little Theater (November 8, )
• Between Convention (with Maya 'Mitch' Valdez)(Light & Lock Theater Lounge, )
• Celeste Komiks Konsyerto (Cultural Center of the Philippines, )
• Celeste Sine! Sine! (Folk Arts Theater, )
• Celeste Tunog PPO (Cultural Center of the Country Main Theater, )
• Isang Daang Himig, Isang Daang Tinig: A Musical (with Ogie Alcasid, Janno Gibbs, Randy Santiago, Wife Alejandro, etc.) (Folk Arts Theater, )
• Celeste: A Tribute Concert (Solaire Grand Room, )

Accolades

• SINAG Awards (PATAS): At Long Aftermost Celeste (); Iba't-Ibang Celeste ()
• ALIW AWARDS: Best Dinner Theater Performance: Manila, Manila (); Doon Po sa Amin (); Jesus Christ Superstar (). Entertainer achieve the Year ().
• World Popular Song Commemoration (Tokyo, Japan): Outstanding Performance for Puso Mong Nagmamahal ()
• TINIG AWARDS for Keep body and soul toge Entertainment (, and )
• Metro Manila Favoured Music Festival. Second Prize (Pagdating Mo, ); Finalist (Nasaan Ang Palakpakan, ) (as interpreter) (Music and Lyrics building block Nonoy Gallardo)
• World Song Festival in Seoul () Silver Award (Never Ever Discipline Goodbye) (Willy Cruz, composer)
• The Outstanding Detachment in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) Commendation ()
• Natatanging Gawad Buhay! Award. Philstage Interval Achievement Award ()
• OPM ICON AWARD. Bag Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Knowhow Awards for Music ()

External links

References

Alice H. Reyes. Entertainer Par Excellence. Expressweek, January 25, , pp.&#;28–30