{"id":201107,"date":"2019-02-06T21:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=201107"},"modified":"2019-02-06T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T02:43:16","slug":"sarah-geronimo-performs-during-uae-papal-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/06\/sarah-geronimo-performs-during-uae-papal-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Geronimo performs during UAE papal event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_201108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201108\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-06-at-23.15.25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-06-at-23.15.25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-06-at-23.15.25.png 588w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-06-at-23.15.25-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Sarah Geronimo for #papalvisituae2019&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtgTk-HBvOS\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamantoniopapa\/\">@iamantoniopapa<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thirty-year-old Filipina singer Sarah Geronimo, also known as \u201cPopstar Royalty\u201d represented her fellow countrymen well, wowing the audience in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) last Tuesday, February 5 as part of Pope Francis\u2019 three-day visit to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah sang songs like \u201cThe Prayer,\u201d \u201cThe Climb,\u201d \u201cNoypi,\u201d and \u201cForever\u2019s Not Enough\u201d while dressed in Amato Couture outfits by Furne One, a Filipino designer based in Dubai as seen in one video of her performance even being shared by boyfriend Matteo Guidicelli, who captioned his post \u201cMy love is the best!\u201d Matteo also posted a photo of he and Sarah saying, \u201cSuper proud of you love. By the way, perfect Italian!\u201d referring to Sarah\u2019s address to the Pope during the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon entering the Zayed Sports City Stadium, Sarah introduced herself to the audience of 180,000 people, excitedly announcing, \u201cMy name is Sarah Geronimo from the Philippines,\u201d adding, \u201cIn different parts of the world today, it is time to rise up and spread love and peace\u2026 To quote the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: \u2018Where there is hatred, let us sow love. Where is offense, kahit mahirap po\u00a0(while it is hard), let us forgive.\u2019 Let us be a part to heal the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to her performance, one Twitter account shares that Sarah allegedly refused to accept her talent fee for her appearance, the post stating, \u201cA friend of mine is part of the prod team for the Pope&#8217;s UAE visit, he shared that Sarah Geronimo wants to waive her talent fee knowing that she will perform for the Pope but the organizers said that SG should take home what&#8217;s stipulated in the contract.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn\u2019t the first time Sarah represented the Philippines on an international stage, recently being part of the Japan-ASEAN Music Festival in Tokyo last October.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-year-old Filipina singer Sarah Geronimo, also known as \u201cPopstar Royalty\u201d represented her fellow countrymen well, wowing the audience in Abu &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":201108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}