Selena Marie Is Now A PolyEast Records Artist

Call me a proud mother coz when it comes to my daughter, I have nothing but pride for her! She recently signed up as a recording artist of PolyEast Records and is set to release her debut single very soon. We are so happy for you, our one and only Baby Girl!

Selena Marie sings "Almost Is Never Enough"

Here's mini-me's latest video singing "Almost Is Never Enough"

Almost Is Never Enough by Ariana Grande (Cover)
Posted by Selena Marie C. Cabusas on Saturday, January 16, 2016

Selena Marie Cabusas sings "Thinking Out Loud"

My mini-me jams with the wonderful duo, who are also our good friends Chona and Eddie, at Park Royal Hotel in Penang, Malaysia. Oh how she sings beautifully!

#Latepost : sang Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' at Parkroyal Penang 󾌵 MariaChona Delosreyes Senior Valentino Sarita Marlou Mar Silverio

Posted by Selena Marie C. Cabusas on Sunday, January 10, 2016

Selena sings "Tadhana"

Tadhana by Up Dharma Down (Cover)

Posted by Selena Marie C. Cabusas on Friday, December 11, 2015

The Wrong Selena

In 2008, I posted a video of my 9-year-old-then daughter Selena singing the song "And I'm Telling You" from the musical/movie Dreamgirls. It was her grand final performance in her school's contest where she won the second place. It was the first singing contest she had ever joined, so getting the second place was really a big surprise for us.

Three years later, the video is still getting views more than ever. Apparently, the fans of the famous teen star Selena Gomez have mistakingly viewed my daughter's video, thinking it was THEIR Selena's video. The comments are just soooo funny (see the comments here)! They've been debating about it and now the video is ACCIDENTALLY garnering more than 42,000 views!

Anyway, here is my daughter Selena's video when she was still 9 years old... she surely has come a long way since then. I'm so proud of my mini-me! :)

Selena bags most awards in her practicum with Center for Pop Music Philippines

Selena showing her certificate card adorned with all 11 awards :)

Our daughter started having her voice and stage performances sessions when we were back in Manila in June. We enrolled her at Center for Pop Music Philippines in SM Megamall to further enhance her confidence onstage. During her orientation, her coach, who is called Coach Prince, was really impressed with her voice, stage presence, and beauty. :)

Anyway, weeks passed by and today was her practicum at Padi's Point in Starmall, along with 13 other students of different ages. Since we're not there to take care and give her moral support, I asked my good friends Dior and Claire to see what Selena might need. Dior brought some dresses to choose from and she also groomed Selena.

All practicum performers were asked to perform 2 songs each with spiels in between. Selena sang an inspiring Tagalog song "Patuloy ang Pangarap" by Angeline Quinto and a fast one, "Fighter" by Christina Aguilera. As her nanny told me, she was the most applauded performer in the batch. In fact, she bagged the most awards - 11 awards in all! Here are the lists of her awards:

• Best in Voice Quality
• Best in Tonal Quality
• Best in Body Sway
• Best in Belting Out
• Best in Reaching High Notes
• Best in Enunciation
• Best in Stage Performance
• Best in Expression
• Best in Spiels Delivery
• Most Applauded Performer
• And the most coveted.... STAR OF THE DAY!

WOAHHH! Who wouldn't be proud of that!??!?! I was so overjoyed upon knowing this that my eyes got filled with tears reading the text message from my friend Dior and from her nanny. She even beat other students who are a lot older than her! I'm a PROUD MOMMA!

She is indeed something special. And with few more sessions left, she will soon have her recital performance for Level 1. I can't wait to see her video performance which are actually stored in her laptop. And for sure, I will blog about it again soon. Very soon! :)

PENG YOU by Selena

After more than a month of persistently trying, I still haven't managed to revive my unresponsive harddisk, but I was able to dig into my other harddisks for some precious collection of videos and audio recordings. So here's a fun video of our crazy li'l family, some never-before-seen footages. In the background, you can hear my daughter Selena singing the Tagalog version of the song "Peng You" ('friend') popularized by Kim Chiu, which is originally a Chinese song. Enjoy the KULIT videos clips! :)