One of the best concerts

One of closest friends took me to a concert on Saturday night in San Jose, and I can honestly say that it was one of the best ever. The concert was called Night of Champions 2 featuring Mark Bautista, Rachelle Ann Go, Christian Bautista, and Sarah Geronimo! At first I just wanted to see Sarah cuz she's AMAZING! She's still so young, but she has such amazing talent, triple threat talaga, and still seems so humble. I think that the Filipino talent scene in the Philippines is so dense with SO MANY "artists" that it dilutes who's really talented from the one's who can be classed into mediocrity. I mean, some people can look good and excite people, but have absolutely NO TALENT! Let me clarify that thought - NO LASTING TALENT!

I'll admittedly say that I'm not an expert on the complete who's who of everyone in the Filipino Talent Industry, but I will give credit to whom I think has this kind of staying power. When I think of Gary Valenciano, Sharon Cuneta, and Regine Velasquez, I think Legends. Not just in thier talents, but in the way they not only approach show business, but in how they conduct themselves in life. There are more artists than those three, but these are the first that come into mind. Given this, I believe that Sarah has this potential too. She's so young and she has so much life to live still so time will tell, but I truly hope that she can keep it up.

Back to the concert. Amazing. My favorite moment wasn't with Sarah though, it was with Rachelle Ann and Christian. Because of tsis-mis and stuff, they were a couple, but I don't know how, but they seem to be good friends still. But Rachelle started singing something about "Not being the right time, but maybe somewhere down the line..." and then Christian came out and then they started singing "There's a place for us" (something like that) from West Side Story. It was just trippy cuz, like a real life musical, it was like a real story told in song between these couple as the audience knew it. And they held hands while they sung to each other. Craziness! Other highlights were Christian singing a couple of Gary songs, Mark riling up the crowd, and whenever Sarah sang. It was just nice to see real singers on stage not having to depend on dancing, dancers, pyro, or any fluff to show them as they were - amazing God-given talented artists.

If you're reading this, THANK YOU for thinking of taking me to see and experience this!