Top Ten Female Singers Of Philippines

   Sarah Geronimo

Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo (born July 25, 1988) simply known as Sarah Geronimo, is a Filipino singer, actress and television personality. She received attention after winning a singing contest on television in 2003. Since then, Geronimo has established herself as a successful Pop musician with five Awit Awards, six Aliw Awards and nineteen Myx Music Awards (the most in the awards history). She later on ventured as an actress and played the lead role in the films A Very Special Love (2008), You Changed My Life (2009) and It Takes a Man and a Woman (2013). All of which are in the list of highest grossing films in the Philippines and earned her two FAMAS Award nominations respectively.

Geronimo signed with music label Viva Records (as part of the prize she won in the singing contest) and released her debut album, Popstar: A Dream Come True (2003). The record was a commercial success and also gave her two Awit Awards, including Best Performance By A New Female Recording Artist for the single "Forever's Not Enough". In 2004, Geronimo started her television career when she began working in ABS-CBN. She appeared in projects such as ASAP (2004–present), Bituing Walang Ningning (2006) and Sarah G. Live! (2012-2013)

In a span of one decade, Geronimo has received some notable accolades, including Best Asian Artist (Philippines) at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in 2012, Ani ng Dangal or "Harvest of Honors" state recognition from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anak TV Seal Hall of Famer (both in 2013) and Best Selling Filipino Artist at the World Music Awards in 2014. At this time, she serves as a coach for The Voice of the Philippines and The Voice Kids

   Regine Velasquez

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez-Alcasid (born April 22, 1970), better known as Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino recording artist and actress, and is widely known for possessing an extensive vocal range.She was hailed by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) as the Philippines' Best-Selling Artist of All Time, with more than 7 million albums sold in the Philippines and 1.5 million albums in Asia.

Velasquez won the Grand Prize at the 1989 Asia Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong. In 1994, Polygram Records produced her first Asia-released album, Listen Without Prejudice. It is considered as Velasquez's most successful album to date, selling more than 700,000 copies in Asia. The album has sold over 100,000 units in the Philippines, 300,000 units in China and 20,000 in Thailand.

She performed in international events such as MTV Asia Awards (in Singapore), UNICEF Benefit Concert (in China), Perfect 10 Music Awards (in Singapore), Asia Live Dream Concert (in Japan), SEA Games, Asian Music Scene, Miss Universe Preliminaries (in the Philippines), Lunar New Year Parade and Festival (in the U.S), Asian TV Awards (in Singapore) & Mosaic International Music Festival (in Singapore).

   Charice Pempengco

Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco (born May 10, 1992), popularly known by the mononym Charice, is a Filipina singer who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as "the most talented girl in the world", she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number eight, making Charice the first Asian solo singer in history to land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Her single "Pyramid", featuring singer Iyaz, is her most successful single to date. It charted within the Top 40 in a number of countries after its debut on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Charice sang live vocals. Crossing over to acting on television, she joined the cast of TV series Glee as Sunshine Corazon. She released "Before It Explodes", written by Bruno Mars, as the lead single from her second international studio album, Infinity

In March 2012, she signed on to be one of the four judges of the Philippine version of The X Factor, which began airing on ABS-CBN in June  

   Julie Anne San Jose

Julie Anne San Jose (born May 17, 1994 in Novaliches, Quezon City, Philippines) is a Filipina singer and actress who is a contract artist of GMA Network. San Jose holds the distinction of being the second female artist after Nina to have been officially awarded a Diamond certification after debut album Julie Anne San Jose surpassed sales of 150,000 units in the Philippines. San Jose was awarded in both 'ASAP 19' and 'SAS' for this feat. Her hit single entitled "I'll Be There" holds the highest certification (4X Platinum) for a digital single in OPM history. Her sophomore album "Deeper" is also certified Gold.

   Rachelle Ann Go

Rachelle Ann Villalobos Go (born August 31, 1986) is a Filipino singer, model and actress who won in several singing contests, the first of which was in Eat Bulaga! at age eleven. She rose to fame when she emerged as the Grand Champion of the reality talent search Search for a Star in 2004.She has been managed by VIVA Artist Agency.

In July 2004, Go released her self-titled debut album with the singles "Love of My Life" and a remake of "Don't Cry Out Loud". It also includes her own cover version of Selena's "Dreaming of You"

Go has performed in musicals as well: her debut in The Little Mermaid, playing as the role of Ariel during 2011 - where she won a Best Actress award from Broadway World Philippine Awards; and another in 2013 for Tarzan, playing as the role of Jane Porter. Go's theater career continues as she was recently cast for the 2014 West End revival of the hit musical Miss Saigon, playing the role of Gigi Van Tranh.

   Jonalyn Viray

Jonalyn Roxas Viray (born November 15, 1989 in Marikina City, Philippines) is a Filipina singer and an occasional actress.She was the first ever Pinoy Pop Superstar Grand Champion.She also received five gold medals and three plaques at the 2006 World Championships of Performing Arts

She is a member of a trio named La Diva, along with Maricris Garcia and Aicelle Santos, in which she sings as a soprano. She is also a cast of the top-rating Sunday variety show Sunday All Stars. On the 28th of February 2014, she staged her first major solo concert entitled "#Fearless" at the Music Museum. Her hit single 'Help Me Get Over' named as the 'Song of the Year' at the 6th PMPC Star Awards for Music.

   Angeline Quinto

Angeline Quinto (born November 26, 1989) is a Filipino singer, actress, and winner of Star Power: Sharon's Search For The Next Female Pop Superstar in 2011.

   Lea Salonga

Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga KLD (born February 22, 1971), better known as Lea Salonga, is a Filipina singer and actress who starred in the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon,for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.Salonga is the first Filipino artist to sign to an international record label (having been signed to Atlantic Records in 1993).She is also the first Philippine-based artist to have received a major album release and distribution deal in the United States (the second being Charice Pempengco with her 2010 album Charice), and one of the best-selling Filipino artists of all time, having sold over five million copies of her albums worldwide.

   Sheryn Regis

Sheryn Mae Poncardas Regis better known as simply Sheryn Regis (The Crystal Voice of Asia), is a Filipina pop singer-songwriter, host, entrepreneur and actress. She rose to fame in popular singing competition Star in a Million in 2003 where she was a consistent top scorer but eventually ended up as runner-up to Erik Santos in January 2003

She was as well known for singing theme songs from ABS-CBN's Marina, Krystala, Kampanerang Kuba, Gulong ng Palad, Maria Flordeluna, Prinsesa ng Banyera and many more. She released has studio albums and collabaoration albums where are many are certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum.

She was a member of ABS-CBN homegrown talent, Star Magic, and now resides in the United States continuing her singing career by doing concerts and stage acting. She popularized in the Philippines the number one hit Come in out of the Rain

   Yeng Constantino

Josephine "Yeng" Constantino (born December 4, 1988) is a Filipina pop-rock singer-songwriter and actress. She won the title "Grand Star Dreamer" of Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine edition of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy

FACTS ABOUT MUSIC

13 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Listening To Music

1. Listening to sad music provokes more nostalgia than sadness.

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A study published last year in PLOS One looked into why people seek out and actually like listening to sad music.

People in the study reported that sad music brought up “a wide range of complex and partially positive emotions, such as nostalgia, peacefulness, tenderness, transcendence, and wonder,” write the study authors.

Surprisingly, nostalgia, rather than sadness, was the most frequently reported emotion.

2. Repetitive choruses are the key to a hit song.

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Joseph Nunes at the University of South Carolina looked into what makes a song commercially successful in a paper published last year in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

“Once you got on the hot 100, the more you repeated the chorus, the more word repetition, the less complex the song, the better it did,” Nunes told NPR earlier this year.

In fact, for each extra repetition of the chorus “a song’’s likelihood of making it to Number One, as opposed to staying at the bottom of the Billboard chart, increases by 14.5 percent,” Nunes and his co-authors wrote. There is a limit, though. Nunes and his colleagues saw a “ceiling affect”, above which more repetitions harmed, instead of helped, a song’s chances.

3. The “mere exposure effect” makes us like certain music just because we hear it a lot.

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But, crucially, there’s a point at which it then really really starts to grate – and you get an inverted-U graph like the one above.

In an essay at Aeon, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas, explains why repetition makes us like music: “People seem to misattribute their increased perceptual fluency – their improved ability to process the triangle or the picture or the melody – not to the prior experience, but to some quality of the object itself.”

Basically, hearing a song you’ve heard before makes you feel clever, because your brain has already figured it out.

4. The mere exposure effect might also explain why Christmas music is so divisive.

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The “mere exposure effect” could have something to do with our love/hate relationship with Christmas music. We get exposed to a ton of it in a very short amount of time, which can take us all the way up the inverted-U graph and down again very quickly.

At the beginning of December, you might be feeling pretty good about hearing some festive tunes, but by the end you’re likely to be burnt out.

5. We mishear lyrics because of the powerful role expectations play in our hearing.

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In the 1950s a Harper’s magazine writer coined the term “Mondegreens” for misheard lyrics, in reference to a Scottish folk song in which she heard the words “Lady Mondegreen” instead of “laid him on the green”.

This happens because the meaning we create from songs doesn’t come entirely from what we hear.

“There’s a piece of what we understand that comes from the sound that comes in our ear,” Mark Liberman, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania, told PRI last November, but “there’s a piece of what we understand that comes from the expectations in our brain”.

6. You might be more likely to keep mishearing a lyric if you find the incorrect version amusing.

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A study published in PLOS One last year argued that the wittier you find your misheard version, the more likely you are to keep hearing it.

(Oh, but in “Blank Space” Taylor Swift definitely does sing “Starbucks lovers”, I’m sorry you are all just wrong.)

7. “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls is officially the UK’s catchiest song.

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Scientists collected data from 12,000 people in an online game called Hooked on Music, created in collaboration between researchers and the Museum of Science and Industry (Mosi) in Manchester.

People were played clips, selected from more than 1,000 of best-selling songs since the ’40s, and had to indicate once they recognised the song. The average time it took to recognise a song was five seconds.

But the Spice Girls’ debut single “Wannabe” took people an average of just 2.29 seconds to recognise, according to the BBC.

8. Album sales in a particular genre of music go up as the music gets simpler.

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“This can be interpreted as music becoming increasingly formulaic in terms of instrumentation once commercial or mainstream success sets in,” say authors of the study that was published in PLOS One.

9. People get chills listening to all different sorts of music.

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Ever got goosebumps when listening to your favourite music? It turns out that it’s not the type of music that dictates whether you’ll get chills, but how much you’re into it.

A paper published in the journal Social Psychological & Personality Science found that musical preference didn’t make a difference when trying to predict whether someone is likely to get chills when listening to music.

In fact the study, which involved 196 mostly young adults from the University of North Carolina, found that “openness to experience” was the biggest predictor of who would get chills when listening to music. Openness to experience is a factor that predicts how much someone is into music, explains Williamson in a blog post about the paper. Essentially, this means that if you’re really into your music, whatever that music is, you’re likely to get the occasional shiver down your spine.

10. Music that gives you chills might make you more generous too.

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Research published last year in the journal Frontiers In Psychology found that people were more likely to choose to give money to others if their favourite chill-inducing was playing. If music that they said they didn’t like was playing instead, they gave significantly less money. Just 22 people took part, so take the results with a pinch of salt, but it’s an intriguing finding.

11. Songs that get stuck in your head are called “earworms”.

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Victoria Williamson, a researcher at the University of Sheffield, has researched why a certain song gets stuck in your head. Earworms can have several triggers, she explained to the BBC in 2012.

Some are obvious: having heard the song recently and repeatedly can contribute. But so can seeing a single word that reminds you of that song (for example, Williamson says walking into a shoe shop called Faith led to George Michael’s song of the same name being stuck in her head all afternoon).

Even stress can trigger an earworm. One participant in an online survey Williamson organised got a song stuck in her head during a big exam when she was 16 – then at every stressful life event since then it reappeared, even years later.

12. The best way to get rid of an earworm might be to get a different song stuck in there.

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Trying to specifically not think about a particular thing is very hard, and tends to make you think more about it that you would have otherwise. So just thinking your way out of an earworm is not going to work.

Here’s some information that might help, though: Recent thoughts are likely to come back if you aren’t actually finished with the thought, according to a paper in Applied Cognitive Psychology. This fits with a different study published in PLOS One, in which some people report that playing your earworm all the way through, either in real life or in your head, can get rid of it.

If that doesn’t work, one way to game the system is to listen to specific music you don’t mind having stuck in your head. Then at least you can choose your earworm.

13. Cows produce more milk when listening to relaxing music.

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And finally… as reported by the BBC in 2001, listening to relaxing music can lead to cows producing more milk. The study involved 1,000 cows being exposed to fast, slow, or no music for 12 hours a day over a nine-week period.

When listening to the slow music (e.g. “Everybody Hurts” by REM) the cows produced 3% more milk per day than when they listened to fast music (e.g. “Space Cowboy” by Jamiroquai).

“Calming music can improve milk yield, probably because it reduces stress,” Dr Adrian North, who carried out the study, told the BBC.

According to Modern Farmer, music is something the dairy industry had been playing about with before the psychologists got involved too. Dairy farmer Kristine Spadgenske from Minnesota told them: “At our farm you can always tell when the radio is not on because the cows are way more jumpy and less likely to come into the parlor.”