A Wowowee mania hits the island of Hawaii.. Reports from a local Hawaii station, Wowowee on Hawaii’s KGMB9 news, on the expected 20,000 Hawaiian-Filipinos to troop to Aloha Stadium tonight. Yes, tonight pa lang magsa- Saturday, May 10, sa Hawaii (Note: it’s 6:04AM May 10, 2008 HI time, 12:04AM May 11, 2008 Philippine Time as of this writing). Charice Pempengco, now to be known/called only as “Charice” is one of the show’s guest. Of course, Wowowee host Willie Revillame, and co-host Mariel Rodriguez, Precious Lara Quigaman, Pokwang, RR Enriquez, Valerie Concepcion, and the famous ASF Dancers Luningning, Milagring and Mariposa are in full attendance. Wowowee in Hawaii will be shown on May 24 in the Philippines.

Charice Pempengco on Oprah formerly The Oprah Winfrey Show. This is the ad plug for her Oprah appearance. Charice Pempengco is featured on kids with extraordinary abilities. Isn’t it amazing! I think she’s the first Philippine based artist ever to appear in Oprah…

And here is the very first single off Charice Pempengco debut album, Charice, “It Can Only Get Better.” The “It Can Only Get Better” Official music video, i patiently uploaded all 45MB of which in YouTube…

A sneak peek of Charice Pempengco first ever music video entitled “It Can Only Get Better” directed by Raffy Francisco. It Can Only Get Better is the first single from the self-titled debut album of Charice Pempengco. Reportedly, Charice Pempengco, the album, will also contain “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” and “I Will Always Love You,” two songs which made her an international sensation. From South Korea’s Star King to Ellen to the Paul O’ Grady Show, Charice Pempengco is in the US right now for the SIPA Awards. On May 17, she will be joining other young talented kids in the hit daytime tv show, Oprah. Reportedly, she wowed host Oprah Winfrey.

Charice Pempengco joined ABS-CBN’s ” Little Big Star” singing contest in 2005, when she was only 13 years old. She was eliminated right away but was later picked in a wild card round to re-enter the competition. She worked her way up to become a finalist. She was a consistent top scorer during the early rounds. But during the finals, she only finished third place to the grand winner, Sam Concepcion.

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.