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YENG, Regine win big at Myx Music Awards
The IYMYX Music Awards 2011 will be remembered as Yeng Constantino’s night as the young rocker brought home five awards—almost a sweep of every category she was nominated for.
Constantino won most of the major awards of the night including Favorite Female Artist, edging out Pop Princes Sarah Geronimo, KC Concepcion, Kyla and Juris, and Favorite MYX Celebrity VJ. Her third single “Jeepney Love Story” from the album Lapit Na won her Favorite Song and Favorite Music video. The song’s music video that featured Piolo Pascual was also nominated for Favorite Guest Appearance. Her last trophy was for Favorite Collaboration for the song “Kung Wala Ka Na” which she did with 6 Cyclemind and Kean Cipriano.
Regine Velasquez-Alcasid on the other hand was honored with MYX Magna Award for her contributions to Philippine music.
A tribute featuring Regine’s most famous songs was then performed by Constantino, Francheska Farr, Rachelle Ann Go, Julie San Jose, Kyla, Christian Bautista and Mark Bautista—all of whom admitted idolizing Asia’s Songbird.
Regine who was accompanied by husband Ogie Alcasid was clearly moved to tears and joked that she’s been dehydrated by all the crying. Regine then thanked everyone on stage saying “Mga anak ko na ‘to, eh!” and encouraged everyone to keep supporting the local music industry.
Just like previous years, local artists filled the venue to show their support to the music industry, Among the presentors included; KC Montero, Ornusa Cadness, Karylle, Isabelle Daza, AJ Perez, Jay-R, Moymoy Palaboy, Ysabella, Rich Herrera, Alodia Gosiengfiao, Mr. Fu, IC Mendoza, Shalalala, Sarah Gaugler, Mia Ayessa, Ivan Dorschner, James Reid, Queenie Padilla, Empress Schuck, and Zia Quizon.
Sam Concepcion, Elmo Magalona, Kean Cipriano, The Company, Sitti, Princess Velasco, Nikki Gil, Quest, Kamikazee each performed production numbers throughout the evening.
The IYMYX Music Awards 2011 utilized a public voting system through text and the Internet to determine the winners.
Here is the complete winners:
Favorite Artist: Sandwich
Favorite Male Artist: Gloc-9
Favorite Female Artist: Yeng Constantino
Favorite Group: Parokya ni Edgar
Favorite New Artist: Tanya Markova
Favorite Indie Artist: Mr. Bones and the Barnyard Circus
Favorite MYX Live Performance: Slapshock
Favorite MYX Celebrity VJ: Yeng Constantino
Favorite Song: “Jeepney Love Story” by Yeng Constantino
Favorite Music Video: “Jeepney Love Story” by Yeng Constantino
Favorite K-Pop Video: “Go Away” by 2ne1
Favorite International Video: “Just the Way Your Are” by Bruno Mars
Favorite Urban Video: “Back to Love” by Quest
Favorite Rock Video: “Lakad” by Sandwich
Favorite Media Soundtrack: “Kaya Mo” by Protein Shake, featuring Kean Cipriano and Ney Dimaculangan
Favorite Mellow Video: “I Remember the Girl” by Christian Bautista
Favorite Collaboration: “Kung Wala na Nga” by 6 Cycle Mind, featuring Kean Cipriano and Yeng Constantino
Favorite Guest Appearance in a Music Video: Angel Locsin for “Magkaibang Mundo” by Hale
Hmmm . . . Are they doing another Pinoy Dream Academy soon?
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50 Cent goes after Pacquiao
It seems Floyd Mayweather has found an ally in friend 50 Cent to attack Pinoy Pride Manny Pacquiao. In his recent tweets (where else could all this hate be posted?) the rapper repeatedly criticized the Pinoy boxer in his March 5 posts to the point of calling him “Steroid Pacquiao.”
The rapper alleged that Pacman had been taking steroids during his fights and is the reason why the Pinoy continues to refuse random blood testing tweeting, “If Charlie Scheen can take a test I know Manny Pacquiao . . . could take a blood test.”
He said Pacquiao fights Mayweather’s “leftovers” like Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, and Shane Mosley. The Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight will take place on May 7 in Las Vegas.
It seems 50 Cent also wants to have a say as to where Manny could spend his earnings, “he makes money in the US an take it to his country and feed his people @FloydMayweather makes money in the US and feed the homeless.”
He also has this message for those reading his tweets; “If anybody that’s following me think that Steroid Pacquiao with 3 losses can beat are 41-0 American champ @FloydMayweather stop following me.”
Quick hit the Unfollow button!
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Is John Estrada regretting his return to ABS-CBN and/or vice versa?
It appears that everything is not as Happy, Yipee Yehey as it seems.
In a recent column, Cristy Fermin says she received news that John Estrada apparently got irked and threatened to return to TV 5 after a staff corrected the host for making a mistake in explaining the mechanics of one of their games.
Estrada apparently got irritated and said “Ginaganyan ninyo ako? Gusto n’yo tawagan ko si Willie Revillame? Gusto nyo bumalik na ako ulit sa TV 5?” quoted the article.
The staff apparently related the incident to ABS-CBN executive Linggit Tan.
Fermin further wrote in her column that her informant said Estrada had been quite hot-headed and that the show’s staff was not too comfortable working with Estrada.
During my last interview with Estrada, he openly expressed his appreciation for being given the chance to host a noontime show again and for being welcomed back to ABS-CBN.
Is the pressure getting too much for Estrada?

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