Cebu Acoustic Star Finals

Cebu City - ON February 26, 2009, three Cebuano acoustic performers achieved the first step to stardom as they were declared winners of 88DB.com’s Online Search for Cebu Acoustic Star. The Finals Night was held at the Ayala Mall Cebu’s Activity Center. Charmaine Jeaneth Cosido of Cebu City, Jobo Layese of Mandaue and Ernedo Ortiz, also of Cebu City won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively beating the seven others in the Final’s Night. The 10 finalists survived the competition’s online voting phase which was joined in by 37 hopefuls. The online voting ran for 30 days: all contestants uploaded in the website’s Music category their profiles and videos of performances for their supporters to see. The 10 contestants who gained the most number of votes automatically qualified for the final phase, wherein they were given the chance to perform live and be assessed by professional judges.

Charmaine, who is a first year airline management student from Royal Christian College performed her original composition titled Magnified. Jobo performed David Cook’s Time of My Life while Ernedo, My Sacrifice by the Creed.

The judges were Neil Bryan Llamedo, Branch Supervisor of Center for Pop Music; Jose “ayie” Lanza a.k.a “papa jock”, Love Radio Station manager and Romel Pareja, eventologist, host and talent manager. Plaques and cash prizes were given to the winners – P15,000 for the 1st placer, 10,000 for the 2nd placer, and P5,000 for the 3rd placer.

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