Charice Pempengco is invited again to sing by Korea’s no. 1 talent show, Starking, being the No.1 choice of Koreans as the overseas guest they would like to see again. Charice sang “I Will Survive”, an acapella version of “Listen” and then a duet with Lena Park (also known as Park Jung-hyun) of “I Will Always Love You”. Lena Park popularized Inori~You Raise Me Up, opening theme of the Japanese anime TV series, Romeo x Juliet.

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Charice Pempengco fnally appeared On Ellen December 19, 2007. Ellen DeGeneres wished that the Incredibly-voiced Filipina singer Charice Pempengco could perform in her show, Ellen. And she did just hours ago, Ellen had her flown to the United States just for the show, that’s how impressed she is of Charice..

Charice performed her trailblazing rendetion of the now Jennifer Hudson classic “And I am Telling You” and was interviewed by Ellen as well. Watch the video below.

Ellen even encouraged people, as posted in her show’s blog, for everyone to watch Charice’s performance..Ellen said, I Am Telling You To Watch This with a caption that said, ” In her first appearance on American television, 15 year-old Charice Pempengco from the Philippines performs an incredible version of, “And I Am Telling You.” It is one of the most incredible performances I’ve ever seen.”

A 14-year-old Filipina is currently and QUIETLY giving the Philippines much needed honor. In a country where we tend to destroy ourselves, Charice Pempengco is a welcome breeze. Charice Pempengco has been featured not once but twice already on E! ’s The Daily 10, first as who sung ‘ And I am Telling You” better, Charice or American Idol’s Jennifer Hudson?(grabe na etoh!), yun pa lang, i was completely blown away na…then on Nov. 16, she was again on E’s The Daily 10, as Hollywood Royalty(!) together with Matt Damon who was voted as Sexiest Man Alive of 2007.

One of the biggest television networks in Korea, SBS invited her in October to perform in a TV show called Star King. She performed And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going from Dreamgirls, which is jaw-dropping, watch the video below. She sang and danced with Korean boy group, Super Junior in one number and then had a duet with Kyu Hyun from Super Junior.

Charice started in ABS-CBN’s singing contest for kids, Little Big Star in 2005. She was eliminated from the singing contest but luckily got a wildcard and ended up third in the Finals. Talk about how ABS nearly lost this talent! That speaks well of the usual judge they get for these contests!

She became a youtube star when a user posted her performance of Whitney Houston’s hit I Will Always Love You which she performed in Little Big Star. Another video that became a hit was a face-off video of her and equally talented America’s Got Talent’s winner Bianca Ryan.

A record company in Sweden took notice and she went to Sweden to record six songs, among which were 2 cover songs, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You and Kate Bush’s original Running Up That Hill, plus four originals namely Amazing, All The Money In The World, It Can Only Get Better, and Born To Love You Forever. These songs will be released digitally soon.

On November 28, 2007, Ellen DeGeneres showed web videos of different people she wanted to guest on her show, Ellen, and one of those is that Korean performance of Charice, Ellen did a standing ovation after.

It has been confirmed that Charice will soon be flying to LA to be a guest on Ellen. O di ba…something to be proud of as a Filipino.