{"id":225074,"date":"2019-07-30T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225074"},"modified":"2019-07-30T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T22:23:22","slug":"ph-rep-aicelle-santos-places-second-in-asean3-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/30\/ph-rep-aicelle-santos-places-second-in-asean3-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"PH rep Aicelle Santos places second in ASEAN+3 Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225075\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-2.20.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-225075 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-2.20.23-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-2.20.23-AM.png 820w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-2.20.23-AM-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-31-at-2.20.23-AM-768x530.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Congratulations again, Aicelle!&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0hU9B7hGB7\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/artistcenter\/\">@artistcenter<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few months after her global musical tour for \u201cMiss Saigon,\u201d singer Aicelle Santos has represented the Philippines again in the international entertainment scene and placed second in the ASEAN+3 Song Contest that was recently held in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh, Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the final round of the competition last Sunday, July 28, Aicelle sported a pink Filipiniana as she sang \u201cKapangyarihan ng Pag-ibig\u201d by Jungee Marcelo, which is a track that is featured in her self-produced album \u201cLiwanag.\u201d Tim Pavino and Steven Bedolido were also Filipinos present at the event to compete for their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, Malaysian singer Rosario Ninih Chamini Bianis bested out the 21 other contestants from ages 18-35 by winning the top spot. Aicelle tied with Tran Hong Nhung from Vietnam for silver, while both Olivia Christina from Indonesia and Eint Chit from Myanmar bagged bronze. The other countries present included China, Japan, and Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aicelle posted about the event on Instagram, captioned, \u201cHonored to have shared our very own Pinoy Music alongside Tim Pavino and Steven Bedolido on ASEAN stage. And what a feat to bag silver! Mabuhay ang OPM!\u201d She also thanks Jungee Marcelo and Janno Gibbs \u201cfor their music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since her Miss Saigon Journey, the 34-year-old actress has been thanking her fellow Filipinos \u201cwho supported [her] throughout [her] journey.\u201d From the iconic music, she states, \u201cI have learned to be more confident in my own skin. I lost my fear, my insecurities. You just have to remind yourself to give your all. Give them the best show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As she returns to the Philippines, Aicelle will now occupy herself with wedding planning as she is engaged to ESPN5 television host Mark Zambrano.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months after her global musical tour for \u201cMiss Saigon,\u201d singer Aicelle Santos has represented the Philippines again in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":225075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225074","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\/225074","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=225074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225089,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225074\/revisions\/225089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}