Salute to media talents

Print and broadcast journalists recently showed a glittering presentation at the Manila Hotel that not only could they write or host television shows but that they could also sing. I guess for some of them, it was an evening like no other. In dazzling costumes, and with cameras zooming in on them from different angles, they crooned – and danced, in a stage resplendent with lights and colors.

First came out the hard-hitting columnist, Mon Tulfo, who sang You’re just too good to be true. . . Hardly had the applause die down than the Three Tenors stepped into the limelight – the recently private citizen Joey Lina, his successor Gen. Angelo Reyes, and MMDA Chair Bayani Fernando, who rendered a medley of love songs.

Channel 21 broadcaster Carmina Constantino was lovely to listen and look at in a lovely gown as she sang, It’s too late Baby . . . And Mike Toledo, a former Malacañang spokesman, you wouldn’t believe, could sing, as he did Once in My Life.

Ruth Abao seemed the most professional of the night’s per-formers. But everyone won the hearts of the audience – Julius Babao and Tin-Tin Bersola, Kaye Dacer, Eric Eloriaga, Harold Geronimo, Marigold Haber, Dodie Lacuna, Angelique Lazo, Vic Lina, Charo Logarta, Tina Monzon Palma, Cynthia Santiago, Bernadette Sembrano, Nelly Sindayen, Deedee Siytangco, Baby Tayag, the Tulfo Trio (Mon, Erwin and Raffy), Amelyn Veloso, and Maricris Yu. No media practitioners but media lovers were Lance Raymundo, Richard Villanueva and George Tagle-Sison. Acting Secretary of Justice Mercy Gutierrez was game enough to join Salute! From the Media & Friends. Thanks go to Mel Feliciano and his Solid Gold Dancers who added glittering touches to the benefit concert.

Salute! was the third baby of art gallery-owner-cum-impresario Beth Sison-Tagle. Proceeds of the project will go to Bantay Bata 163, Congratulations are due director Angie Magbanua and musical director Gerry Matias.

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