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On the 18th of May 1990, at the star-studded Ad of the Year Awards held at Hotel Nikko Manila, the Creative Guild of the Philippines paid tribute to its very own--TESSIE HERMOSA TOMAS—by according her a Hall of Fame award.

The former agency creative-turned-show biz star, Tessie Tomas (b.31  October 1950), was to showbiz born. Her mother, Laura Hermosa was a famous radio personality, a much sought talent who voiced classic radio serials as well as radio commercials during the fledgling age of Philippine advertising.

14 YEAR OLD TESSIE modeling for PALMOLIVE with mother LAURA HERMOSA

Tomas finished Broadcast Communications at the University of the Philippines and opted to follow a different path—advertising.  She cut her teeth at Ace-Compton Advertising and then moved to McCann –Erickson where the gifted copywriter wrote successful campaigns for blue-chip client Johnson & Johnson products (Remember Johnson’s Baby Powder--“Ikaw Lamang, Wala ng Iba” campaign).

Tomas rose quickly up the corporate

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Category Archives: Tenors

Björling – Life and Career

Childhood

Jussi Björling was born in 1911 in Borlänge in the Swedish province of Dalarna, 220 km NW of Stockholm. His father David was a tenor and singing teacher and trained the voices of his children from an early age. Already in 1915, his three oldest children, the boys Olle, Jussi and Gösta, made their first public performance in a church. They toured extensively with their father in Sweden and 1919-1921 also in the US, where six recordings were made in 1920.
Opera debut

In 1928, Jussi began his studies at the Stockholm Conservatory and in August 1930, he could make his official debut at the Royal Opera in Stockholm in Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Already in 1929, he had begun to make recordings as a tenor, and in 1930 he made his first opera recordings.
Breakthrough

In 1931, Jussi Björling had a breakthrough outside Sweden with a recital at the Copenhagen Tivoli. He continued to sing at the Stockholm Opera (e.g. Guillaume Tell & Barbiere di Siviglia 1931, Rigoletto & Elisir d’amore 1

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Nolyn Cabahug (1956 to 2015) was a Filipino classical tenor singer. Nolyn Cabahug was born in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines, on March 19th 1956. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Music where he majored in voice, he began his singing career in 1979 as a member of the Manila Metropolitan Theater Concert Chorus. Cabahug was featured as a baritone/tenor soloist in several of the Chorus’ productions, including their version of the Broadway musical “Kismet”. He moved on to be tenor soloist of the University of the Philippines Concert Chorus, which toured the US, Canada and Europe in 1981 and 1983. It also won in international competitions in Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. For a good part of the 1980s and 1990s, he was very active in the local opera circuit. Cabahug sang the role of ‘Crisostomo Ibarra’ in the 1987 restaging of Felipe Padilla de Leon’s “Noli Me Tangere”, and also starred in Rolando Tinio’s adaptation of “La Traviata” in 1990. He had acted as choirmaster and vocal coach f

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