“A Star is born”

Charmaine Clarice Pempengco popularly known as Charice has stunned the world with her great voice. At early age of four Charice already has shown a talent in singing which was more develops with the help of her mother who serve as her primary voice coach.
Her mom also makes her dresses by borrowing sewing machine from their neighbors which she uses on every contest she join.
The highlight of Charice career started when she join the Little Big Star in ABS-CBN
where unfortunately she dropped and was given a second chance to be pick again through a wild card. She was 12 years old that time and impressed the judges with her wonderful voice.
Though she was the jurors’ favorite she only reaches the 3rd place for having the lowest text vote from the audience. Sam Conception got the 1st place while Makisig Morales ranked as the 2nd.
She then catch the cyberworld attention when FalseVoice channel of YouTube post her performance in Little Big Star singing the hit classical song of Whitney Houston “I will Always Love You”. But the audience doubted her performance believing it was not her voice and only doing lip-sync.
Another popular video was her face-off with the America’s Got Talent winner Bianca Ryan. It brings to the attention of a popular production company based in Sweden, the Ten Songs Production. She then traveled to Sweden last June 2007 and recorded seven songs.
FalseVoice post again another video of Charice a month later of her performance singing the theme of Dreamgirls “And I Am Telling You I Am Going”. In October 2007, the biggest TV Network in South Korea, Seoul broadcasting System, who has viewed her videos invite her to perform in a talent show called The King. All Koreans bow in her wonderful performance of the “And I am Telling You I Am Going”.
Her performances in the King were kept on reposted in YouTube by many viewers that open a way for Charice in American Television. A TV network E’s The Daily Ten featured her performance in The Kings on November 14, 2007 with a headline of “A Star is Born” and on November 16 she was crowned as “the Queen of the Week” in Hollywood Royalty segment.
Charice was invited to perform in The Ellen DeGeneres Show last December 19, 2007. Helen DeGeneres featured already her performance in The King on its episode in November where she gave Charise a standing ovation. Her performance was post in Ellen DeGeneres poll website and was considered as the Most Memorable Moment of 2007. She got an all American Standing Ovation from the audience after performing 2 songs “I Will Always Love You” and “And I am Telling You I Am Going”.
She was awarded as the Most Requested Foreign Act of 2007 at South Korea after a nationwide voting where she perform again with the host Lena Park and receive again a Standing Ovation last December 2007 . She becomes the most-sought after young singer when she goes back to the Philippines.
She also invaded the whole United Kingdom and another standing ovation when she guessed in Paul O'Grady Show in England on April 8, 2008.
On May 12, 2008, she guessed in The Oprah Winfrey Show for its episode “World’s Smartest Kids” where she is the only guest who sung. She perform the Whitney Houston’s hit “I Have Nothing” that earned her again another standing ovation from the audience. Oprah hugged her so tight who was disbelief of such wonderful performance where Charice herself shed a tear for realizing her dream.
On May 23, 2008, she was invited again to perform at Mandalay Bay Beach Resort in a night concert as tribute to the legendary producer David Foster. Charice now had the honor to sing the Whitney Houston song “I Have Nothing” and “I Will Always Love You” and “I Am Telling You I Am Going” that make the crowd roars “O” in a standing Ovation.
Another performance that brought a great pride to our country was Charice performance in the birthday concert of Andrea Bocelli last July 20 in Italy. Andrea Bocelli is the well-known operatic pop tenor. Charice perform with other International top performer at the Theater of Silence Lajatico. She also got the chance to perform a duet with Bocelli in his hit song “The Prayer”.
Charice hard works are all paid off and just proved the whole world that she was really born to be a star!