Cherry and Ilonggo Music Artists rocked Pintados de Pasi

The wait was over, finally RSLPhoenix Music Ilonggo Artists successfully held a free mini-concert at Passi Public Plaza food festival area during the recent 41^st Pintados de Pasi Festival last March 19, 2011. The group of Ilonggo music artists who came and shared their music for the adoring Passinhon public include Sheila Barrios, Reyn Callao, Cherry Callao of Ilonggo 3nity, All Out Kingz, Irish D., Vhouyeng King, Conyo Boy, Ezzy of SYK Unit, Zpinx Angel and Mix Ilonggo Crew. The show started at exactly 5:30 PM with an upbeat dance song performance by Sheila Barrios and Stan of All Out Kingz with their duet “All Nite.” It was followed by a non-stop All Out Kingz original tracks from their hit singles “Changes,” Anu Bala?” to their love-themed rap songs “Baby Girl,” “I Love You” and their debut album title track “Ilonggo Para sa Ilongga.” Next was Cherry Callao who performed her first single “Ikaw Guid Lang” followed by a non-stop RnB performances of “Seryoso” and “Bahala Ka Na” by Reyn Callao plus Ezzy of SYK Unit joined him in front of the audience to perform their new Ilonggo dance song “E-shembot.” Newest Ilongga singer, Irish D. performed her mesmerizing first single “Ikaw” and was followed by SYK Unit’s front artists Vhouyeeng King and Conyo Boy who performed their popular Ilonggo hits “Bisan Anu Matabu,” “Kadaku Sang Moon,” and “Boho.” Irish D. was delighted to sing her newly-written second song “Paano Na” with a high-belting finale. Ilonggo 3nity’s Reyn Callao, Sheila Barrios and Cherry Callao finally performed their Australian internationally-released dance hit single “Badtrip” in full energy. Then Sheila was joined in front by Zpinx Angel to perform their upcoming collaboration single “Padayon.” Zpinx was rejoined by his groupmates in Mix Ilonggo Crew to perform their bouncy original rap songs. Finally, local songstress Sheila Barrios emotionally performed her certified Ilonggo hit singles “Ginpalangga” and “Sa Handum Na Guid Lang.” Before the show ended, Reyn Callao and Sheila Barrios was rejoined in front by all the Ilonggo artists as they performed the theme song of itravel Philippines magazine entitled “Travel with Us.”

The more than two-hour mini-concert was one of the most watched event during the weeklong festival of Passi City as they started to listen and embrace Ilonggo music. Irish D. and Vhouyeeng King hosted the show. They are hoping to come back again next year to Pintados de Pasi to prove that Ilonggo music will always be culturally-significant for all Ilonggos. RSLPhoenix Music Ilonggo Artists exclusively released a compilation CD album of their hit songs (Ilonggo Pop) with bonus tracks during the show.