“It’s now an established toprater at maraming gumaya sa ating concept,” he said. “Which is good kasi there are so many talented Pinoys with diverse talents. Our winner will get a brand new car, P1 million cash and the chance to represent our country in the World Cup of the Performing Arts in California this July.”
There are three singers among the Hall of Famer finalists. Ayegee (Ivy Grace Paredes) is 29 and has joined “Sing Galing” and “Philippine Idol” before. A belter and the first Hall of Famer this year, she sings regularly in a comedy bar. Melbelline Caluag is 14, the fourth and only girl in a brood of five from Guiguinto, Bulacan. She’s a high school junior at Guiguinto National Vocational School. Rhyzza Kafilas is 16, a black beauty with an African-American as her dad and the Wild Card winner in the batch. She’s taking up masscomm at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina.
Last year, the winner was Joseph the sand artist. In this year’s batch, there’s another sand artist, Monica Regalario, 21, who took up drafting and sketching at the Bulacan State University. How different is her work from that of Joseph? “May nationalistic themes po ang concept ko, like Jose Rizal and the EDSA Revolution,” she says. Since her work is so transitory, she records them all in pictures and on video.
There are four dance acts among the finalists. Dancing is Fun is a group of 3 boys and 3 girls from Catarman, Samar who do ballroom dancing. Next is the brother-sister team of Craig, 16, and Samantha Campos, 14, balikbayans from New Jersey who were proclaimed Junior Champions in 2008 in “Dancing with the Stars” and have guested in Tyra Bank’s show. Daniel Darwin, 23, is also a balikbayan from New York. His act shows him dancing with a hula hoop on fire. Last is Johnny Villanueva, known as Sustantivo, a pole dancer and young father who does death defying stunts.
