NewGen Champs Concert

You attend concerts to hear the musicians perform their own songs that you enjoy live.

You attend band gigs and concerts to hear other musicians cover tunes you enjoy.

As a music lover, you enjoy these events, especially if they are well-produced, with excellent production qualities and the program builds up to a high.

ABS-CBN's new generation champions are noted for their voice quality, wide vocal range, costumes, extensive song inventory, passion for singing, and mastery of their art.

Attending with an open mind with some expectation drawn from the pattern aired on ASAP TV Show on ABS-CBN where keys to the performances are the choice of songs, a customized musical arrangement and assignment of singing lines per artists.

Deciding last minute to attend the #NewGenChamp show at the Music Museum 27 April 2024 with JM Yosures, Reiven Umali, Khimo, JM dela Cerna, Marielle Montellano, Lyka Estrella, and Rea Gen Villareal, I still managed to source ticket for the declared sold-out concert in a 700 plus seater theater.

Host Vice Ganda and two judges Eric Santos and Katrina Velarde supported the talents in this live concert most of them performing in a live concert for the first time. Reiven launched his dancing con singing talent in this event. Lyka and Rea Gen's trio with Katrina singing "Lason mong Halik and Hawak Mo" showcased collab on harmony, birit, shifts and shared staging. Both seasoned singers Eric and Katrina admired the qualities of the champions they sang with.

The boys prepared a series of cover songs from a single artist; boyish with fine voice quality Reiven chose Michael Jackson songs, the exuberant and highly charged Khimo performed Bruno Mars hits, and the latest new gen recruit, soothing and kilig JM Dela Cerna, sang Michael Bolton's love songs whose high notes were noted and appreciated well by the audience with a standing ovation. The husky voiced and seasoned champion JM Yosures interpreted Parokya ni Edgar songs.

The ladies known for birits presented equally strong providing balance renditions; the regal and formal Marielle sung solo without JM Adelle's new songs, Lyka’s dramatic segment of Beyonce's songs was backed up with dancers and costume changes and Rea Gen belting Ben and Ben songs.

The vocalists opened and finished the event together, with the boys doing a separate set as did the girls.

Though not their own compositions, the NewGen champions present fresh renditions of familiar songs modified by great musicians to suit the singers' voice range and capabilities. With the champs' voices, the evening's music may be claimed as their own.

When they opened the show, they asked the audience to allow them “to entertain you.” Through the musical arrangements customized to bring out their unique and pleasing voices, and their songs individually, duets or solo, they proved they are worthy to be marked as “champions,” ambassadors of the language of pop music.

Music delivers because it binds us all, crossing frontiers and connecting hearts via its universal language of emotion and expression, especially when performed well.

NewGen singers honing their talent of singing and singing endlessly inspire us as they convey the message of the songs to us intimately in live concerts like this.

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