Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez narrates to Preview magazine her experiences since the start of her singing career.
One of the best-known success stories in showbiz belongs to Regine Velasquez. She started out in amateur singing competitions and kept reinventing herself throughout her career. Now looked up to as one of the biggest names in the music industry, Asia’s Songbird has become the prime example of how hard work pays off.
“I’ve worked really hard. I’ve done a lot of things in my desire to grow as an artist,” she shares with Preview magazine (October issue), which she graces for the first time. Her hard work has more than paid off, but Regine remains down to earth. “Nakatulong rin talaga ang pagka-probinsyana ko. I really started from scratch.”
The cover shoot for Preview magazine took place at the Villamor Air Base. Regine—dressed in long, bode-fitting gowns inspired by the movie The Aviator—is shown climbing steel scaffolds and improvised stages, made of wooden planks on steel, to get to the top of a grand old YS-11 turbo-prop. The grand old airplane serves as backdrop for many of her stunning photographs. It seems an uncomfortable, glamorless task, but Regine gets the job done, and beautifully.
Regine has plans of slowing down eventually. “For many years now, I’ve concentrated solely on my career,” she says, citing the work that she has done for herself and for other artists as well. “The funny thing is, when I was starting, I told myself that I will do everything now and when I feel ready, I will stop and have a family. I still want that now.”
As Regine herself started from humble beginnings and worked hard to make a name for herself, so do the 26 Pinoy artists featured in Preview‘s annual Creative It-List. Preview supports Filipino talent and ingenuity by featuring those who have helped set the standards for artistic excellence, each on the verge of becoming a superstar in her/ his field. Some notables are stage actress and dancer Ina Feleo, bossa nova singer Sitti, director Marie Jamora, and actor Ping Medina.
Get the complete rundown of Preview‘s Creative It-List and find out more about Regine’s plans of settling down by grabbing your copy of the October issue of Preview magazine, available in all leading bookstores and magazine stands nationwide at P125 per copy.
Source: PEP
