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Date Posted: 21:47:22 01/11/04 Sun
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mmJun- from news on-line
's message, "Erick Santos: Next Big Star" on 20:21:22 01/11/04 Sun
>Will Erik Santos be the next big star?
>
>
>SARAH Geronimo was last year’s musical find. She now
>also working in the movies —Viva Entertainment Group
>had cast her in the film Filipinas. She had a short
>but noticeable role, as Richard Gomez’s daughter and
>she wasn’t bad at all.
>
> Erik Santos
>
>Sarah was the grand champ in the singing contest Star
>For A Night which Viva Television produced on IBC 13
>as a franchised show from London. Only 14 years old
>but with a soaring voice that she uses well to belt
>out Celine Dion’s love songs, Sarah easily made a dent
>on the consciousness of star-loving Pinoys. Her debut
>album Popstar sold well last year, and so was her
>debut solo concert at the Music Museum. She had
>another well attended solo concert at the Ynarez
>Coliseum in Antipolo City last December. Though a
>newcomer, Viva managed to make her the star attraction
>in many mall shows featuring other upcoming talents of
>the entertainment company.
>
>Viva has really done a lot for her in just one year.
>Will ABS-CBN 2 be able to do the same with Erik Santos
>who has just emerged as grand champion of Star In A
>Million?
>
>Erik is already in his early twenties and while he
>doesn’t look awful, he would likely never make it to
>any of the network’s batch of Star Circle since he
>also happens to lack height. He sings with a soaring
>voice and his winning piece was a number from the
>Broadway hit Phantom of the Opera. While he sings
>well, his voice is pretty ordinary, nothing
>distinctive at all.
>
>Luck seems to be on his side. He got into the finals
>as a second-timer in the contest, someone whom hosts
>Zsa Zsa Padilla, Edu Manzano, and Ryan Agoncillo
>mysteriously described as a “wild-card.” The other
>male finalists also had his soaring voice and they
>looked better and taller. But then the others were
>even eliminated way ahead of him, and during the
>contest’s final showdown, he was the lone male
>survivor who had to battle it out against two young
>women, one of whom was the dimu-nitive Cebuana Sheryn
>Regis. The latter was said to be have won the vote of
>the texters.
>
>Erik’s prizes include a contract with Star Records, P1
>million in cash, and a management contract with the
>network’s Talent Center.
>
>But, then, a lot of people doubt that Erik can become
>as sensational a star as Sarah even in the hands of
>the Lopez’s star-building machinery. The Lopez’s
>star-making machinery is practically over-loaded and
>has been failing at packaging newcomers it has been
>signing up by the dozens. We have lost count on what
>batch of Star Circle the network is set to launch
>soon, and who remembers anyone from the last batch who
>has made it big?
>
>The only young talent the network managed to catapult
>to stardom last year was Bea Alonzo who belongs an
>even earlier batch of unknown recruits. True, Lucky
>Manzano became a familiar face to the public last
>year, but he happens to be the only son of the
>ex-couple Vilma Santos and Edu Manzano and he might
>have become famous just the same even if he had been
>signed up by, say, ABC 5 or IBC 13. Lucky is just
>plain lucky to be his famous parents’ only son.
>
>In the case of singers, the Lopez star-building
>machinery can’t even claim that it has made Michael
>“Josh” San-tana, King, and Divo really famous.
>Michael was the guy in the Nora Aunor-starred soap
>opera Bituin. His character’s name was Josh and he was
>teamed up with Carol Banawa. He was famous while the
>soap was bubbling into viewers’ homes and would have
>gone back to oblivion soon after Bituin ended but was
>happily saved by his having been asked to record a
>Tagalog adaptation of one of the songs of F4.
>
>Michael’s version must have been just a mild hit.
>Otherwise, Star Records should have made him wax an
>entire album of adaptations of F4 songs, which can be
>sung be in Mandarin by children who are not yet in
>school! (It’s useless to have a Tagalog adaptation of
>F4 songs!)
>
>By December last year, interest in the Tagalog
>translation declined, espeically since the F4 guys
>were all over Manila by then.
>
> As for King and Divo, we have a feeling they were
>overshadowed by Nyoy Volante, Paolo Santos and Jimmy
>Bondoc. Incidentally, Jimmy was a Star Record contract
>artist for years who did not become popular until he
>struck on his own as an acoustic performer.
>
>But, oh, well, if the Lopez star-building machinery
>would be turned on almost in full force in favor of
>Erik Santos, the guy might yet become this year’s
>Sarah Geronimo. But, then, again, he would have to
>share the limelight to the batch of Star Circle who
>will be launched soon in a new show called Star Circle
>Quest which will be hosted by Lucky Manzano. The show
>will be pitted against GMA 7’s on-going Star-struck
>whose goal, too, is to launch young newcomers to
>stardom.
>
>Meanwhile, for those who have not heard Erik’s
>singing, Star Records has released an album featuring
>the 10 finalists of Star In A Million. Who knows, the
>company might release the guy’s first solo album this
>year.
>
>The Lopez’s star-building machi-nery should really
>grind fast because Viva is now working on building up
>Mark Bautista who was among the co-finalists of Sarah
>when she won in Star For A Night. Mark might just
>overtake Erik easily. And, then, soon, since Viva has
>the on-going Search For a Star on GMA 7, the company
>might turn on the spotlight in full force on whoever
>emerges there as the first grand champion.
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