The song " Diana" brought Anka stardom as it went to No. 1 on the Canadian and US music charts. In an interview with NPR's Terry Gross in 2005, he stated that it was to a girl at his church whom he hardly knew. In 1956, with $100 given to him by his uncle, he went to New York City where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC Records, singing what was widely believed to be a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter. Paul Anka recorded his first single, "I Confess", when he was 14. Paul Anka at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, 1959 He attended Fisher Park High School, where he was part of a vocal trio called the Bobby Soxers. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory. His father came to America from Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria, and his mother was an immigrant from Lebanon. His parents were both of Lebanese Christian descent.
5 Other film and television appearancesĪnka was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Camelia (née Tannis) and Andrew Emile "Andy" Anka Sr., who owned a restaurant called the Locanda. According to PARI, she is also the only Filipino artist to have eight of her albums exceed sales of 200,000 units. Having sold more than seven million records in the Philippines and a further million and a half in Asia, Velasquez is the best-selling Filipino artist of all time. Its singles " Tadhana" and "Hugot" were released a month earlier. Her seventeenth studio album, R3.0, was released in October 2017. Velasquez took a three-year break to record new material and introduced a gospel inspired album, Hulog Ka Ng Langit (2013), which includes the singles "Nathaniel (Gift of God)" and "Hele Ni Inay". In October 2000, she released her first live album Regine Live: Songbird Sings the Classics, a fifteen-piece setlist performed at the Westin Philippine Plaza in Manila. The album sold more than 240,000 copies and was certified six-times platinum. Its lead single served as the love theme of the motion picture of the same name. Velasquez released the soundtrack album Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw in July 2000. The next year, she released her tenth studio album, R2K (1999), which was subsequently certified twelve-times platinum by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) and became the best-selling album by a female artist in the Philippines. Her ninth studio album, Drawn, was released in November 1998 and includes the singles "How Could You Leave" and "Ikaw". In 1998, Velasquez parted with PolyGram and signed with Los Angeles-based producer Mark J. Two more studio albums were released in the region, My Love Emotion (1995) and Retro (1997). As of 2014, the album has sold 700,000 copies in Asia, making it the best-selling album of her career. It featured the lead single "In Love With You", a duet with Jacky Cheung. Īfter Velasquez signed with PolyGram in 1994, she released her fifth studio album Listen Without Prejudice in countries including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. A cover version of " It's Hard to Say Goodbye" with Paul Anka became the lead single for her fourth studio album Reason Enough, which was released in July 1993. Her subsequent studio albums Nineteen 90 (1989) and Tagala Talaga (1991) featured the singles "Narito Ako" and "Buhay Ng Buhay Ko", respectively. In December 1989, she represented the Philippines at the Asia-Pacific Singing Contest performing the songs " You'll Never Walk Alone" and " And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", and won the competition. After adopting the stage name Regine Velasquez, she signed with Viva Records in 1987 and released her debut studio album, Regine, that spawned three singles-"Kung Maibabalik Ko Lang", "Urong Sulong", and "Isang Lahi". She released her first single "Love Me Again" in 1986, under the name Chona. In 1984, she won the television talent competition Ang Bagong Kampeon and was signed to a record deal with OctoArts International. Velasquez performing at ASAP Natin 'To in 2019įilipino singer Regine Velasquez has released seventeen studio albums, eight soundtrack albums, one live album, fifteen compilation albums, five extended plays (EPs), eighty-nine singles (including nine as featured artist) and twenty-one promotional singles.
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