The Only Praise Songwriting Competition To Set Its 7thFinals
Inspirational hymns are set to echo inside the country’s premier performing arts venue as the 7-year longstanding praise songwriting competition A Song of Praise (ASOP) Music Festival will stage its Grand Finals night on November 11, Sunday at 7 PM in New Frontier Theater, Araneta Center CubaoQuezon City.
Twelve musical masterpieces from monthly winners startingNovember 2017, will vie for the “Song of the Year” grand titleof the 2017 awardee of PMPC’s Star Awards for “Best Talent Search Program.”
Five of the twelve finalists are returnees in this year’s competition namely Rommel Gojo (2013), Oliver Narag (2015), LJ Manzano (2016), Emmanuel Lipio Jr. (2017) and Joyner Dizon (2017).
At stake for the grand winner is half million pesos cash prize (tax free) while non-winning entries will each receive Php20,000 as consolation prize. Two special awards will also be picked and will both receive Php50,000, the Best Interpreter Award and People’s Choice Award.
The People’s Choice Award voting starts at 9 in the evening today until 12 noon of November 11, just visit https://www.asoptv.com/poll to vote once per day using your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
This year’s grand finals’ entries comprise of the following:
JANUARY
“MAGPATULOY SA MABUTING PAGGAWA”
COMPOSER: FEBS COLIBAO
INTERPRETER: GIAN MAGDANGAL
FEBRUARY
“’WAG KANG BIBITIW”
COMPOSER: OLIVER NARAG
INTERPRETER: JESSA MAE GABON
MARCH
“GOD IS WITH US”
COMPOSER: EMMANUEL LIPIO JR.
INTERPRETER: CELLO NUNEZ
APRIL
“SALAMAT PANGINOON”
COMPOSERS: ELMAR JAN BOLANO AND REX TORREMORO
MAY
“PAGBABALIK”
COMPOSER: JOEL JABELOSA
INTERPRETER: MARCELITO POMOY
JUNE
“HILING”
COMPOSER: JEFFREY LIM
INTERPRETER: PLETHORA
JULY
“MAKIKITA KITA”
COMPOSER: JOYNER DIZON
INTERPRETER: DAN BILLANO
AUGUST
“BANAL MONG SALITA”
COMPOSER: LJ MANZANO
INTERPRETER: MARK MICHAEL GARCIA
SEPTEMBER
“TUGTOG”
COMPOSER: JOHN PAUL SALAZAR
INTERPRETER: BRADZ
OCTOBER
“'DI NA 'KO AAWIT”
COMPOSER: ROMMEL GOJO
INTERPRETER: HANS DIMAYUGA
NOVEMBER
“ISANG MILYONG PASASALAMAT”
COMPOSER: EDWARD SALDE
INTERPRETER: LEAH PATRICIO
DECEMBER
“BINAGO MO AKO”
COMPOSER: JETT VILLAREAL
INTERPRETER: DARYL ONG
Conceptualized and created for television by Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International, Inc. (BMPI) President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kuya Daniel Razon, the ASOP Music Festival aims to encourage amateur and professional songwriters in praising our Almighty God through music.
For more information about ASOP Music Festival, visit its official website at https://www.asoptv.com.
You can follow ASOP on Facebook via facebook.com/asop.untv and Twitter at twitter.com/asoptv.
