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Pops Fernandez 
Fernandez signs an autograph aboard USS Blue Ridge.Background information Birth name Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez Born December 12, 1966
Quezon City, PhilippinesOrigin Manila, Philippines Genres Pop and OPM (music) Occupations Singer and actress Years active 1982–present Labels MCA Universal Records (present) Associated acts Martin Nievera, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Kuh Ledesma, Gary Valenciano Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez (born December 12, 1966 in Quezon City, Philippines), also known as Pops Fernandez, is a Filipino singer and actress. She is dubbed the "Concert Queen."
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Biography
Career
Fernandez began her music career at age 16 when she signed a contract with OctoArts Records in 1981. In 1982, Fernandez released her first album and co-hosted the Philippine television series Penthouse Live! with Martin Nievera. She became a popular celebrity in the Philippines. She has appeared on the covers of several Philippine magazines.
In 1996, Fernandez joined the cast of another television program ASAP together with her former husband Martin Nievera, along with Dayanara Torres and Ariel Rivera.
Fernandez was awarded the Best Female Musical Variety Show Host at the Philippine KBP Golden Dove Awards in 1999. She has also toured the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Guam, and Italy promoting her music to Philippine audiences. She also released her album Shindig Live in 2001.
She recorded a series of songs that reached the top of the Philippine charts and attracted a sell-out crowd in venues such as the Araneta Coliseum and the Rizal Football Stadium, as well as the General Motors Palace in Vancouver.
Fernandez sparked controversy by posing provocatively on the cover of FHM magazine.[1]
In June 2007, Fernandez co-hosted a Philippine show with Kuh Ledesma in Las Vegas. She was preparing for her December concert at the Araneta Coliseum marking her 25th year anniversary in the Philippine entertainment industry. In 2008, she performed with other Philippine singer such as Regine Velasquez, Kuh Ledesma, and Zsa Zsa Padilla in the Araneta Coliseum, called Divas 4 Divas.
Film
After doing so many films genre in Musical, or Comedy or even light Drama under Regal Films her Movie and Mother Company but after her public divorce in the Mid-90's she was seen as a Dramatic Actress by 1999 she did the film "Linlang" in English (Infidelity) with Dramatic Actor Richard Gomez, and Versatile Actress Joyce Jimenez, and in 2001 she did the Film Gusto Ko Nang Lumigaya (I Just Want To Be Happy) which she starred with Drama Kings Albert Martinez, Diether Ocampo, and Bojo Molina both films were directed by Multi-Media and Award Winning Director Maryo J. Delos Reyes which made her Box-Office Drama Queen Twice, and did a Romantic Comedy the same year titled Videoke King with Robin Padilla which she garnered the Box Office and then in 2006 played Super Villain in Zsa Zsa Zeturnah Opposite Zsa Zsa Padilla.
Controversies
During her 1998 Public Divorce in 1999, she ventured in doing movies such as Linlang starring Richard Gomez and Joyce Jimenez about a wronged wife on the verge of revenge after finding out her perfect marriage will crumble down due to her husbands infedelity. the movie was under the direction of Multi-Awarded Director Maryo J. Delos Reyes which won her the Box Office Queen Award and in 2000, she did another movie under Maryo J. Delos Reyes' direction in the Suspense Thriller Gusto Ko Nang Lumigaya which tested her strengths of portraying more than a everyday woman pestered in Sexual Endeavors opposite to her character in "Linlang" these 2 movies are well known for boosting her career as a Box Office Actress.
2009-present
In 2009, she embarked a Philippine tour at the US to stage The Divas 4 Divas US Tour together with Regine Velasquez, Kuh Ledesma and Zsa Zsa Padilla. She recently released her new album under MCA Universal entitled, Hope which is a collection of all revival songs and a new version of her 1983 hits Little Star After appearing in I Love Betty La Fea Pops will appear again in television to the newest singing capitation of GMA Network via Are You The Next Big Star? as she is one of the judges.
Discography
- 1982 Pops
- 1983 Pops Fernadez in Love
- 1984 Heading for the Top
- 1986 The Best of Pops Fernandez
- 1990 Awesome
- 1991 Change
- 1993 Pops
- 1996 Colours
- 1999 Nagmamahal Pa Rin Sa 'Yo
- 1999 Moments
- 2001 Shindig Live
- 2001 The Story of Pops Fernandez
- 2002 The Way I Feel Inside
- 2004 When Words Are Not Enough
- 2006 Silver
- 2006 Don't Say Goodbye (Re-released)
- 2009 Hope
Film
- Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Moveeh (2006)
- Videoke King (2002)
- Gusto Ko Ng Lumigaya (2000)
- Linlang (1999)
- Tamis Ng Unang Halik (1989)
- Kung Maibabalik Ko Lang (1989)
- Magic To Love (1989)
- Twinkle, Twinkle Magic Star (1988)
- Sa Puso Ko Hahalik Ang Mundo (1988)
- Stupid Cupid (1988)
- Shoot That Ball (1987)
- Si Mister At Si Misis (1986)
- Always And Forever (1986)
- Payaso (1986)
- Bilanggo...Prisons No. 10069 (1985)
- Give Me Five (1984)
- Paano Ba Ang magmahal (1984)
- Just Say You Love Me (1982)
- Pag-ibig Pa (1982)
- Love ko to (1980)
Television
TV Shows
- Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition Season 3 as herself (2009) - GMA Network
- Are You The Next Big Star? as judge (2009) - GMA Network
- I Love Betty La Fea as Paulina (2009) - ABS-CBN
- POPS! (2005) - ABC
- Sing-Galing ni Pops (2004) - ABC
- Twin Hearts (2003–2004) - GMA Network
- All Together Now (2003) - GMA Network
- SOP (2003–2004) - GMA Network
- Morning Girls (2002) - ABS-CBN
- ASAP (1995–2003) - ABS-CBN
- P.O.P.S. (Pops on Primetime Saturday / 1992) - ABC
- Penthouse Live! (1982–1987) - GMA Network
- Eat Bulaga (1979) - RPN
References
See also
External links
Categories:- 1966 births
- Filipino child actors
- Filipino child singers
- Filipino female singers
- Filipino pop singers
- Filipino film actors
- Filipino television actors
- Filipino television personalities
- Living people
- People from Quezon City
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