Two Filipino music artists, grentperez and Marian Carmel, joined Singaporean and other Asian acts on stage for the inaugural two-day music event held recently. The theme of the free music festival was to celebrate diversity in music through the roster of talents and bands showcasing acoustic, classical, pop, electronic, and jazz genres.
SINGAPORE — Set against the backdrop of Singapore’s central business district, with the Esplanade Theatre on the Bay to the right and Marina Bay Sands to the left, and featuring riveting music performances at The Deck in Marina Square, the recent District M: Marina Central Festival created a lively and festive atmosphere in The Lion City’s city center.
The STAR was able to attend the festival, witnessed the live performances of some of the music artists and interviewed Singaporean singer-songwriter Charlie Lim, Filipino-Australian grentperez and Filipino-Singaporean Marian. He flew all the way from London, where he is based now, for the festival. Charlie has mentored some of the musicians who performed at the music event, including Marian. “She’s lovely. She really has a really, really nice voice. She’s a great writer very bubbly personality. She was very, very shy when I first met her and now she has a couple of shows. I’m a big fan of hers,” he said of his mentee.
“I think it’s wonderful that they managed to get grentperez on here. So a lot of people who are fans of these international artists are coming down to catch the entire festival and encourage to be, you know, watching the local artists so it feels great.”A bit of background, Marian was born in Laguna, Philippines and was raised in Singapore. She moved to Singapore at the age of five with her parents. She can fluently speak in Tagalog.
The Singapore-based singer-songwriter’s debut EP is To You, To Me which was released in 2021. “The songs are about letters for myself and also for other people. It’s like lessons. I wrote that after my first breakup,” she told this paper. While he was in Manila, he showed his crew the different types of Filipino dishes prepared by his aunt. He recalled, “We went to my house in Mandaluyong. And my tita cooked sinigang menudo that she made for us.”
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