|
Celeste Legaspi (born March 18, 1950) is a Filipino singer and actress. Her singles and albums reached gold or platinum status during the 1970s and 1980s. She is the daughter of National Artist for Visual Arts Cesar Legaspi.〔(Remembering Celeste Legaspi. Inquirer.net )〕 She spearheaded the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM), a group which aimed to promote and propagate Original Pilipino music. She is married to Nonoy Gallardo, one of the premier OPM composers. ==Life and career== Celeste Legaspi (nicknamed Maricelle) is third of the five children of National Artist Cesar Legaspi and his wife who once classified as ''coloratura''. Celeste started singing during her kindergarten years. Fast forward to 1969, she started singing professionally with The Ambivalent Crowd, earning P25 per performance. While in college, she appeared in ''Showboat'' as Magnolia followed by her performance as Nancy in the Philippine presentation of ''Oliver!''. But she later confessed that her performance in Showboat scared her. "There I was, cracking every night, unable to be heard from the musical accompaniment, with Mama holding on to my sister Diana's hand. As a result I was disillusioned with my singing and with my course then--nursing," Legaspi told in an interview. But the then 16-year-old Celeste Legaspi didn't give up her singing. Her singing career flourished upon shifting her course to Communication Arts at Maryknoll College (now Miriam College). She joined The Ambivalent Crowd, became a college graduate in 1971, and eventually married to Dominador 'Nonoy' Gallardo in March, 1972, who was then an advertising man. In 1972, she left The Ambivalent Crowd and joined the Up from Down Under Band as a soloist for a three-month stint at ''Wells Fargo''. Then she became part of the Time Machine which at the time had a songstress named Didith Reyes and Anthony Castelo who would both conquer the OPM charts in the years ahead. Legaspi's career started to reach stratospheric heights upon joining the ASEAN Tour in 1975 followed by a solo concert at the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) Little Theater where Rolando Tinio, one of the Philippines' literary geniuses, featured her in Filipino translations of popular songs at that time, most of the songs appeared in her Celeste...Popular Songs Vol. 1 album. The album featured Celeste's heartwarming Filipino renditions of Mini Ripperton's ''Loving You'', Diana Ross' ''Theme from Mahogany'', and ''The Lady Is A Tramp''. The impressive feat was followed by successful dinner-theater presentations in 1977 of ''Manila, Manila'' which won her an Aliw Award for Best Dinner Theater performance for that year. She also starred in Doon Po Sa Amin and Jesus Christ Superstar in 1978, each garnering Best Dinner Theater awards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celeste Legaspi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|