19 March 2011

Sherine Abdel Wahhab: a fighter

Sherine Abdel Wahhab is an Egyptian singer and actress. The Arab world came to know her through her song, Ah Ya Leil, in 2002.

Sherine isn’t exactly poor. But she isn’t exactly rich either. She pursued singing at the Egyptian Music Institute, but dropped out to start her musical career.

It was then that she signed with the Free Music Productions and released a debut album with Tamer Hosny. It included Ah Ya Leil, a song founded from traditional Egyptian tarab voice techniques and Egyptian music instruments of the Shaabi genre.

She released another album—this time as a solo artist—entitled Garh Tany. It was accepted by the Egyptian and wider Middle Eastern music market.

But she developed a fallout with Nasr Mahrous, owner and manager of Free Music Productions. Her professional relationship with him did not falter though. Mahrous still produced and directed another single for her, the Lazim Aïsh. It was accompanied with a music video, centering on Sherine’s feet. The album became best selling.

In 2006, Sherine was chosen to perform Keteer Ben’sha, the theme song for the movie An el-Ish’ wel-Hawa. She also dedicated Lebnan Fel Alb to victims of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.

A year after, she was commissioned to sing the theme song for Kashkool Likol Muatin, a TV series. Then she collaborated with Hany Shaker to record Qalbi Leek.

She sang Bahibik Ya Omi for Arab mothers in Mother’s Day 2009. She has turned a Rotana talent then.

She has solidified her growing influence on Arab music in July 2009 when she posed as the Greek goddess of wisdom for her album Habeat.

Sherine is an actress too. She took part in Medo Mashakel, where critics and Sherine herself did not approve of her acting skills. She admires Warda, Samira Saeed, Shadia, Fayza Ahmad, Najat Al-Sagheera, Om Kolthoum, Thekra and Asalah. She got married before she became popular in the music scene to Medhat Khamis, a music arranger. She remarried though in 2007 to Mohammad Mustafa, also a music arranger.

17 March 2011

Diane Warren: the composer

Diane Eve Warren, popularly known as Diane Warren, was born in Van Nuys, California on September 7, 1956.

Her career started upon collaborating with producer Jack White in 1983, giving birth to songs Solitaire and Hot Night, both of which were recorded by Laura Branigan. Her songs produced many Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. In the late 80s though, Warren separated ways with White and pursued her own publishing company, the Real Songs.

She wrote more than 1,000 songs totaling to about $20 million in royalties each year, 90 of which were US Billboard Top Ten hits, including 38 that have topped the charts.

Warren is superstitious. The room in the publishing house where she writes songs has not been cleaned since the 90s. She didn’t even clean her ‘secret world’ even after the big LA earthquake. The Cave only has two keyboards, 1980s posters of Cher and Michael Bolton, and cassettes in it.

She is the only female writer in history to be named ASCAP’s Writer of the Year three times and the first songwriter to have seven songs in the US Billboard Hot 100 sung by different artists simultaneously. For this, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

If she comes up with a good song in a place where she can’t record it, she calls her home and sings the song to her answering machine. And when she writes a song, she does not contain herself with an artist in mind. She cannot read music, but she can finish writing a song in a week.

In the UK, she is regarded the 35th most successful songwriter in singles chart history as well as the 3rd most successful female.

She is a Jewish diagnosed with tone deafness at 5. She ran away when she was a teen but returned after missing her cat. She began writing music at 14 even though her mother wished only for a secretarial job for her. She wrote the song Because You Loved Me as a tribute to her father who had continued to be behind her despite.

Warren has never been married. She has never been in love and she does not enjoy dating.

The Diane Warren Foundation, in conjunction with the ASCAP Foundation and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, created a joint initiative, beginning in 2000, called Music in the Schools. The initiative provided sheet music, band arrangements, folios, and method books to each of the schools that are already recipients of musical instruments from the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.

She released a compilation album of love songs in 2004, titled Diane Warren Presents Love Songs, remaining true to her being the “Queen of the Ballad”. She wrote the song Note to God, which was produced by David Foster and performed by Charice last May 18, 2009 on the The Oprah Winfrey Show.

“Songwriting is a skill and takes practice, patience, and perseverance. There is a lot of rejection in the songwriting business…” -Warren

SINGERS WHO HAVE COVERED HER SONGS
Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Patti Labelle, Barbra Streisand, Gloria Estefan, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Aerosmith, Aaron Neville, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Starship, Ricky Martin, Johnny Mathis, Mary J. Blige, N’Sync, Elton John, Roberta Flack, Roy Orbison, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Reba McEntire, Enrique Iglesias, LeAnn Rimes, Aswad, Ace of Base, Ginuwine, Aaliyah, The Cult, Sugarbabes, Roy Orbison, Daniel Bedingfield, Uncle Kracker, Gavin DeGraw, JoJo, American Idol, Macy Gray, Anita Baker, Jamelia, Il Divo Anthony Callea

CHARITIES
AIDS Project Los Angeles (Buddy For Life ), PETA (honorary committee member), Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance (key donor ), David S. Warren Weekly Entertainment Series (founder), Jewish Home for the Aging, Save the Music campaign, “Music of My Heart”/ASCAP Foundation, Music Education Project

SOME OF HER SONGS
FOR YOU I WILL This pop ballad is about a person pledging love and devotion to someone. It ranked #13 on Top Hot 100 Hits of 1997.
HOW DO I LIVE Intended to be a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air, the song was sung by LeAnn Rimes with Faye and Real (F.I.R.) and Trisha Yearwood.
I DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING If it wasn’t for this song, Aerosmith could not claim a #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 after 28 years.
NOTHING’S GOING TO STOP US NOW Written with Albert Hammond, the song is actually about the latter’s love story with his 7-year girlfriend. “It’s almost like they’ve stopped me from marrying this woman for seven years, and they haven’t succeeded. They’re not gonna stop me doing it.”
RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT This is the song that made Dianne Warren popular in the music biz, and the biggest hit of the American R&B band DeBarge.
BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME This song is a tribute to David Warren, Dianne’s father, who had worked as an insurance salesman, writer and a painter. It was produced by David Foster and featured in the film Up Close & Personal.

References

15 March 2011

Michelle van Eimeren: the beauty queen who won a man’s heart

She is a beauty queen who came to the Philippines to win a crown but won a man’s heart instead.

Michelle van Eimeren is an Australian. She represented her country during the 1994 Miss Universe pageant, placing 11th among 77 other contestants.

But what should just have been a conquest for a beauty title turned to an entertainment career for her in the country. She also fell in love with a Filipino actor and singer, Ogie Alcasid, in 1996. It was ‘love conquering racial boundaries and even height differences’. Their romance brought forth two kids, Leila and Sarah.
Unfortunately, their relationship fell apart after 11 years. They separated legally last October 2007.

Van Eimeren re-married in November 2009 to Mark Murrow. His ex-husband’s girlfriend and Asia’s songbird, Regine Velasquez, sang ‘I Love You So’ in the reception.
The ceremony was held on 464-metre high Mt. Keira, Wollongong.

Van Eimeren now works as a wedding planner in Robertson, New South Wales. She wrote a children’s book before entitled “Butterfly” and used to pose for commercials and endorsements.

Her ex-husband claimed to be happy for her. They remained good parents and good friends. He already has another romantic relationship.

“At the end of the day, when you’re happy, if you’re okay, then you’re okay. It doesn’t matter what people say you have to do, what you have to do with your life. You’ve got to be true to yourself,” Michelle van Eimeren’s ex-husband

Arundhati Roy: a woman, a writer, a friend

Suzanna Arundhati Roy, more popularly known as Arundhati Roy, is an Indian writer. She advocates social justice and economic inequality issues. She has won the Booker Prize for her novel, The God of Small Things, in 1997.

Child of a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali tea planter father, Roy first became an architect before being a writer. She got married to an architect himself, Gerard da Cunha, during her studies but remarried in 1984 to a filmmaker, Pradip Krishen.

She attracted media attention when she criticised Shekhar Kapur’s film Bandit Queen, saying the director has no right to ‘restage the rape of a living woman (Phoolan Devi) without her permission.’ She was catapulted to international fame upon the publication of her first novel, which is semi-autobiographical, distributed to 18 other countries.

Her work was not regarded positively in the United Kingdom, however. It was, for some, ‘execrable’ and ‘profoundly depressing.’ It was also criticized in her home country, and Roy was charged of obscenity by Chief Minister E. K. Nayanar.

It could be for that reason Roy worked as a screenplay writer again. She wrote The Banyan Tree, an anthropological serial that explored the evolution of the Indian people, their cultures and languages; and DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy, a documentary against the Narmada dam project. She contributed to the book We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, which explores the culture, diversity and threats to everyone in world.

She wrote again, but for nonfiction and political books only. She spoke against globalization, neo-imperialism, India’s industrialization, the Narmada dam project and even the United States’ global policies.

She encountered opposition from some political authorities in her country for her support for the independence of Kashmir from India. Only mainstream journalists backed her namely Vir Sanghvi, executive editor of the Hindustan Times; Jug Suraiya, editor of The Times of India; and Swaminathan Aiyar, a staff of The Times of India. She was put in contempt by the Indian Supreme Court for her allegations of corruptions in the Indian military, and sentenced her to one-day imprisonment with Rs2500 fine.

Environmental historian Ramachandra Guha also criticized Roy’s ‘tendency to exaggerate and simplify’. She was courageous and committed alright, but Guha still finds Roy ‘hyperbolic and self-indulgent, giving a bad name to environmental analysis.’

She sparked more controversies. She had fierce discussions with Gail Omvedt on the Narmada Dam project. She accused the US military invasion of Afghanistan as ‘another act of terror’ and recounted 19 underdeveloped countries it has bombed since WWII. She called President George W. Bush a ‘war criminal.’

She wrote The End of Imagination, a critique of the Indian government’s nuclear policies in 1998. She crusaded against hydroelectric dam projects in her country. She regarded the conflict between Israel and Lebanon a ‘war crime’, accusing Israel of ‘state terror.’

Among with 100 other artists and writers, she cried for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions. She called for a re-investigation on the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. She insisted a death sentence for Mohammad Afzal. She believed the November 2008 Mumbai attacks covers a wider issue that is poverty.

She remarked that the incident was spurred by the Muslims in India. She attacked the significance of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower as the country’s iconic symbol. She waved international attention on the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

For all of these, she only got $30,000 for her novel The God of Small Things, the National Film Award for Best Screenplay for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, the Lannan Foundation 2002 for her ‘struggle for freedom, justice and cultural diversity’, the Sydney Peace Prize 2004 for her social campaigns and non-violence advocacy, and the India Academy of Letters 2006* for her collection of essays on contemporary issues.

But recognition is not what Arundhati Roy rallies for. She is, after all, a woman, a writer, and a friend.

*She declined to accept the recognition in protest against the Indian government.

BOOKS
The God of Small Things
The End of Imagination
The Cost of Living
The Greater Common Good
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Power Politics
War Talk
For Reasons of State (Foreword)
An Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire
Public Power in the Age of Empire
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament (Introduction)
The Shape of the Beast
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy

14 March 2011

Anne Curtis: a dreamer

Anne Marie Ojales Curtis Smith is half-bloodied. Her mother, Carmen Ojales, is a Filipina, while her father, James Curtis-Smith, is an Australian. Anne has two siblings, Jasmine and Thomas, living in Yarrawonga, Australia.

Her first showbiz appearance was in a movie (Magic Kingdom) as a princess. Then GMA-7 came along and put her in its shows, T.G.I.S. (Thank God It’s Sabado) and Love to Love.

She moved to ABS-CBN in 2004, starring in Hiram, Kampanerang Kuba, Maging Sino Ka Man, Dyosa and The Wedding. She won her first major acting award at the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival for the movie Baler.

GMA-7 plotted to get her back and feature her in Captain Barbell Meets Darna but Curtis chose to stay where she is now.

She had relationships. Her first love, Richard Gutierrez, spent a year with her. She also shared three years with Oyo Boy Sotto, a year with Paolo Araneta and two years with Sam Milby. Although not her boyfriend, she has stayed Luis Manzano’s bestfriend for nine years. Zanjoe Marudo has also been linked with her.

She is a poet. She would dare write poems and stories during her free hours.

She is a friend. She is Kris Aquino’s Little Sister, and a close friend of Cheska Garcia, Danica Sotto, Isabel Daza, Raymond Gutierrez and Liz Uy. She supported Luis when the latter broke up with actress Angel Locsin.

She is a giver. She participated in a hands-on outreach program in 2005 with some children in Pampanga sickened with cleft-palate operations. She also helped give donations to the victims of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng through Shop and Share, a celebrity online auction she organized with Angel Locsin and Dimples Romana.

She is a born-again Christian. She belonged to another religion before 2007.

She is a Filipina at heart. Only when she finally settles down would she move back to Australia.

She is often featured as cool and sexy in advertisements and magazines. She had covered for UNO (Calendar 2008), Rogue (July 2008), StarStudio (September 2008), Marie Claire (April 2009), Cosmopolitan (May 2009), Meg (June 2009), Chalk (September 2009) and FHM, which hailed her the 7th sexiest woman in the world in 2009.

She became ‘choosy’ though, some had claimed, after she has won an acting award. And she suffered from a car accident last November 2009. Aquino Marcelino, Curtis’ driver, said she possibly fell asleep while driving. About four months before that incident, her house was robbed where a bag and some clothes only were taken.

Curtis remained strong despite, grateful for the tsismis as well as for the safety of her household. She is now 26. She can still talk Australian English ‘with precision and flair’ as well as Filipino and Pangalatok.

“But you know I think everything happens for a reason… I’m still here, I am responsible enough to still do my job… [but] life goes on, we have to keep on moving” – Anne

10 March 2011

Bing Loyzaga: the wife and the mom

Yes, she is the daughter of professional basketball player, Kaloy Loyzaga, and sister of Chito, Teresa and Joey. But Bing Loyzaga earned her place to the Philippine entertainment industry through an endorsement for a toothpaste commercial (Colgate) in the mid-80s, singing “I Smile For You”.

She is married to Janno Gibbs, a comedian and a singer, whom she has two children with, Alyssa and Gabby. She played as Isabelita in the Filipino film classic Sinasamba Kita aired on GMA Network. The Sine Novela, as it came to be called, was adapted in the comics novel written by Gilda Olvidado.

She also starred in Enteng Kabisote 3, a joint venture of OctoArts Films and M-Zet TV Production for the 2006 Metro Film Festival, as the villainess Satana. She acted as the motherly aunt of Gerald Anderson in the series My Girl.
Her personal character was tested though when Janno was linked with a number of women— Cristine Reyes, Gladys Guevarra, Lian Paz, Regine Velasquez and Jackie Foster.

But throughout her ordeals, she remained forgiving. She opened her heart to mend her relationship with the man who broke her trust. She reconciled with Foster after their six-year rift in a church service in Fort Bonifacio.

She accepted change and did something about it. She underwent a medical procedure to get her figure as well as her confidence back.

As of now, she’s working for the soap opera, Agua Bendita, as a social climber. She is still with her two daughters as well as with her legal husband.

“Akala ko noon, Gabriela Silang ang pangalan ko, e, yun pala Bing Loyzaga lang talaga. Pero yun nga, you accept things as it is, not something else when it’s really not.” -Bing Loyzaga

09 March 2011

Didi Dee: From psychology student to an art dealer

Didi Dee is an art dealer. She oversees her inner sanctum, the Hiraya Gallery, which is among the oldest and refutable commercial galleries in Manila.

She started to ‘take care’ of their business in February 1980. It used to be just the frame shop Modern Frames her Dad managed 28 years ago.

She has challenged herself since then. Dee appraises a piece of art she displays in Hiraya, which is an old Filipino word for “dream,” through its overall craftsmanship and emotional impact. It must (1) tell her something she doesn’t yet know, (2) show what a camera cannot just capture and (3) intone things human eyes cannot see.

Running an art gallery is difficult, especially since Dee tries to shy away from a “name-centric” art scene, focusing on talented newcomers. But Hiraya has sustained for almost 30 years to date, and it was mostly because of Dee’s inherited business acumen.

Aside from that quality, Dee is also selfless and humble. She would share her life with whoever whenever. She also knows when to stop and start again, observing a line from a movie of Akira Kurosawa: If you pace your windmill not too fast then you don’t have to repair it very often.

She has experienced conflicts though in pursuing and persevering art, for there are some artists who opt to sell directly to a client. For that not to happen, Dee adjusts ‘special arrangements’ for the painter.

She also discourages artists to replicate, even if the piece is their own work. She admonishes them instead to continuously polish their art and relent if they ‘do not make a single sale in seven years.’

“Life gives various opportunities and whether we grab them or let them pass by is all up to us.” –Didi Dee


(Below is my writing on her and her gallery five years ago.)

Cellars: Life and Art in accordance

The young are taught to be privy. Matters that involve penises, vaginas, and breasts should not be discussed. It may be about life but then, it is not how it should be portrayed. When they grow up, expect that they know nothing about its complex realities. What they know then would be misconstrued, pent up deep inside…

“Living in a Catholic society, there are so many things that we don’t want to talk about. The Cellars is our vehicle ,” says Didi Dee, Hiraya Gallery’s director, about her latest exhibit Cellars.

Running from March 12 to April 5, this mini art space hangs 29 paintings, each soothing and provoking. All works of Filipino modernists with themes about life, love, sex, and lust, the art pieces evoke in us realizations that society tries to restrict and confine but are still within ourselves. Release it and you would either be hounded or fulfilled.

Indecent and impudent are the two words one could mouth upon entering the gallery’s door. Pinned on its counterpart wall are the works of Jose Legaspi. Lovers feasting, losing blood, into a deep blue sea where gloom and doom awaits. His Lovers shows two horrid creatures—one swallowing the penis of his partner as the other stab the former in the head with a dagger—so passionate and ardent that they could kill and exhaust themselves for the thing called love. His Blood reveals the true amount of excruciating pain. Not through injuries and wounds but through the hurt brought by darkness and nothingness. And his Feast illustrates men and women’s appetite for love, eating each other’s body and devouring each other’s soul.

Another door, containing Santiago Bose’s August Deities, looms on the corner inviting anyone who is as courageous as the two naked female bathers to its fantasy castle. In that place are promises of happiness, contentment, as well as of fear. It only takes one to open it.

At the far center of the gallery is Maya Munoz’s Red House display of a man begging, asking, and giving love. She was able to capture the oohhs and aahhs of her lover, defining the crimson light that goes through his head, literally.

Lined in the left walls adjacent to it are Dulcie Dee’s Naked Cities (I, II, III, and IV). Buildings, cars, and traffic lights fitted in a woman’s breasts depicts how urban living becomes a part of our everyday lives that we even see it as a pleasure—making it hard to distinguish love and lust.

Along the same wall, the innate desire of men and women to share “love” gives Fernando Modesto a means of illustrating using his pen and ink how these people crave for sex and how they would do everything to have it.

Situated on the other side is Mariano Ching’s Transmission Vamp expressing his pity to men and women who just can’t suffice their body’s needs. This time though, due to bodily restraints.

Beside is Nunelucio Alvarado’s Chik Boy and Utang Na Mo speaking of the decisiveness of pimps disguising as Good Samaritans and of Lotharios hiding in the mercy of some people who understands them.

Last in the row is Alwin Reamillo who bugs our conscience with his painting P.I Por Sale, cleverly illustrating how our once-beautiful country, where named and unnamed heroes risked their lives, has become.

The Artist

For every art piece, there is its creator. For every gallery, there is someone who cherishes working with artists and with the realities they are conveying.

“When I started the gallery, I knew nothing,” confesses Dee, who had taken Psychology in UP Diliman. “I remember, I only got 2.75 in Humanities. My teacher then was Prof. De Leon.”

Twenty-five years before, the gallery was only a frame shop ran by his father. But the business was slowly breathing so Dee’s father asked her to take over. She thought then, “How about art pieces?” And that is how 250 exhibits came to be.

“Working with artists is easy. I sort of pry into their lives. But I don’t take things personally. I mean, I like what I do but I don’t bring it too close to me. Otherwise, I won’t survive.”

She picked her displays through three criteria: “I take note of its craft, if it has something to say, and if it moves, disturbs, or provokes. That makes the craft or the hand, the concept or the head, and the content or the heart. Balance of the three would be the best.” “For art has to be transforming. It has to move a person. What I like about it is when you put 10 persons [in front of a canvass] and they come up with 10 different ideas and levels of interpretation,” she added.

Her two favorite paintings in her exhibit are Legaspi’s Lovers and Reamillo’s P.I Por Sale. “I like them because they depict our present human condition. What have we become as a people? We all have a price now.”

She expects nothing in life anymore though. “I’m making the same number of invitations in my exhibits. There was a time when I just got 8 [guests]. And then, there was a time when I had a thousand. So, why expect?”

Repeating Carlos Castaneda’s lines, she said, “What is important in life is intention. What is important is that you know what to decide on.”

“We should keep our pride and dignity because everything starts from us. Until we recognize that we are all connected, we won’t go anywhere.”

04 March 2011

Filipino Nursing Growth

Of the 10,000 nursing students that recently graduated, and the 100,000 nursing professionals still running around the country without a job, figure out how many of them had really wanted to take care of sick people.

There aren’t figures. So it would be unfair to claim that most of them studied the course so they could work abroad and earn dollars.

One thing is for sure, though. It would only be a matter of time before the country would be left with insufficient—not to mention inefficient—nurses to pursue their American dream.

It is true that success almost always comes with sacrifices. It’s just sad that personal progress cannot be helped and will certainly lead to our country’s destruction.

Free Damn: Angelica vs. the Azkals

A Scottish satirical writer during the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle, pointed out that ‘every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!’

And so, Angelica Panganiban may have been just right for ‘tweeting’ her opinion on Phil Younghusband's ‘interest in showbiz.’

Si Phil may indie film? Akala ko ba football player siya??? Lahat na lang artista na. Sad.” (Does Phil have an Indie film? I thought he is a football player??? Everyone wants to enter showbiz. That’s sad.)

Masama. Sana lang mag-focus muna silang lahat sa Football. Para sa Pinas kasi yun. #justsayin’ after na lang ng tourny mag artista,” (It’s bad. I hope they first focus on Football. That’s for the country. Maybe after the tournament, then they can join showbiz)

But “the right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins,” so says former US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “Di pag may opportunity na edi i-grab na! Ikaw nga hindi nag-aral dahil gusto mo mag artista!!!!” (That’s their life! If there’s an opportunity, then grab it! You did not study because you want to join showbiz!!!) happiemom808 retorted.

It’s also not the actress’ business if Younghusband has a movie project, anilmorales pointed out. “bakit? wala kang pakialam kung kami ni phil or not in the same way wla karing pakialam kung may movie siya oh wala!” (Why? It’s not your business if Phil and I have a relation and in the same way that it’s not your business if he has a movie or not!)

The word war goes until Panganiban deleted her Twitter account. The English-Filipino football player's,fans had attacked the actress’ boyfriend, too.

Phil Younghusband tried to enter the Philippine entertainment industry in 1998. He joined the singing contest Celebrity Duets (GMA-7), and had dated Rhian Ramos. Angel Lacson is the apple of his eye right now.

He started playing as a striker for the Chelsea at nine, and was the team's top scorer in 2003.

Four years later, Younghusband signed a contract with the Esbjerg fB, a Danish top-league club. He returned, however, to the Chelsea after 2008.

He moved to the Philippines during that year’s summer. He is currently with the Azkals, where Derek Ramsay tried out.

References

01 March 2011

REFERENCE LIST

17 March 2011
Diane Warren: the composer
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/warren_diane/bio.jhtml
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005534/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_You_I_Will_%28Monica_song%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_I_Live
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Want_to_Miss_a_Thing
http://www.nme.com/artists/diane-warren, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Because_You_Loved_Me

04 March 2011
Free Damn: Angelica vs. the Azkals
http://www.batangastoday.com/angelica-panganiban-tweets-phil-younghusband%E2%80%99s-showbiz-interest-azkal-fans-react/10497/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Panganiban
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Ramsay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Younghusband
http://www.quotegarden.com/censorship.html