It was celebrity duets on Pinoy Dream Academy 10th gala night. Judges were Louie Ocampo, Dulce and of course, Gerard Salonga. Inaki and Bituin opened the night with Proud Mary. It was good with so much energy from the two singers, though Inaki’s voice was not as powerful as Bituin. They really enjoyed the song, and he really was good at offbeat performances because he moves well on stage. Miguel and Sheryn sang Never Ever Say Goodbye. His facial muscle movements are now softer. It was a good performance by Sheryn.. hehe.. joke, by both of them. Though Sheryn’s performance was powerful, so was Miguels’. He make sure that he was not intimated by her presence and high notes. His voice really showed, and a very nice duet. Gerard said that he was not eaten alive. Next was of course the very powerful and nakakapanindig ng balahibong performance ni Laarni at Jed Madela of The Prayer. Laarni looks good, lumalabas ang ganda nya. They started really good, smooth and their voices was really wow! Jed’s voice was equally good, hats off to the both of them. She really is a soprano, but she needs to improve on her breathing, because she has the habit of having an offkey pag patapos na ang song. So ayun parang may sumabit at lumihis na tono, which the judges noticed. Bulong by Kitchie Nadal was the choice for Van. Grabe, she really make her kaduet parang backup. He just ran and ran all over the stage during the very long intro and all the time Kitchie keep looking at the back para bang she’s asking “kelan ka titigil at napapagod ako sa yo, samahan mo ko dito sa gitna ng stage!”. As a result of Van’s running on the stage, he got tired that when he finally sang, you can’t hear his voice. There were a lot of flat notes tuloy. He was not as good as last week. Kissing a fool was Cris and Richard Poon’s piece. She looks like Manilyn Monroe singing a sexy performance, but still I think there is still something lacking. I think medyo nailang pa siya with Richard Poon and sa middle part parang medyo sumabit ng konti. Joey G of Side A was Liezel’s partner. Zel’s voice was really good, kaso parang kulang pa din performance nya, kahit her voice is so good, on some high notes parang nagiging chipmunks na lang. Sobrang easy kasi yung song for her kaya parang walang effort on her part. One poor guy who has a poor song choice was Sen. Sobrang pangit ng song nya, Can we just stop and talk awhile which she sang with Rachel. He should have been given a Basil Valdez or Marco Sison or a Bryan Adams song. Nasayang din yung ganda ng voice ni Rachel at di nagamit sa song. Plus Sen’s happiness was nasobrahan ata at wala na lang siyang ginawa kundi ngumiti na whole time. Of course, kaabang abang yung number ni Bugoy with Vina, singing Muli. Another good performance from him. I enjoyed it very much, pero parang minsan lang nakakasawa na yung mga kanta ni Bugoy kasi pare pareho na yung tone. But definitely it was good talaga, though minsan sobrang hina ng boses nya at halos boses ni Vina ang nadidinig ko. Very entertaining naman the number of Poy and The Ryan Cayabyab Singers. Kinaen niya ng buo yung group ni Mr. C. She was not stiff on stage and her moves are like a pro. It was just bad at sobrang laki nya na mahirap talaga siyang ipackage as star. Sayang ang ganda ng voice, just like Bituin at Frenchie Dy.
Well as expected, Inaki was the one expelled having only around 24% of votes. Sobrang bastos na kasi ni Inaki, halatang halata naman na he’s just taking advantage of Cris. As my mother have said (she has been an avid fan of the show, more than me!) Cris would be very happy and relieved to know that Inaki was the one expelled.
As expected, Bugoy was the top scholar having a very high score of 9.81 with Sen on the bottom at 7.29. It would have been nice if they called the top 3.
Well as a twist, since the Dream mentors sat at the judges table, there would only be 2 scholars that would be a candidate for expulsion. It was Sen and Van, with the latter having 7.30 score, just .01 away from former.
I’m excited for the next gala night and to know who would be the top 6. My prediction would be Bugoy, Laarni, Liezel, Miguel, Cris and Van.
