PAGDIRIWANG PHILIPPINE FESTIVAL 2024
Music in Our Hearts
June 5, 2022 l 2:05 PM
Bliss Pamintuan
Bliss Pamintuan is a 10 year-old girl who loves art, and loves to sing any chance she gets. She is currently in 4th grade and takes voice lessons and musical theatre classes. She hopes to one day make it on Broadway to perform all of the songs she loves from musicals, such as, Wicked, West Side Story, and Hamilton. She loves her friends, her family and her dog, Quincy!
Lucas and Levi
Mangalindan Corcoro
Budding musicians, brothers Lucas and Levi have shown growing talents in music and the arts. Nine-year-old Lucas began exhibiting his love for music at an early age. In addition to playing the piano, Lucas loves playing football, soccer and basketball.
Younger seven-year-old brother, Levi, on the other hand loves to sing. His favorites are Tagalog and Pangasinan songs, especially when they are duets with his brother. Levi also loves dancing and art. Lucas and Levi were both born in Seattle to parents Lenore Mangalindan Corcoro and Mark Santos Corcoro. Lenore is a Nurse Manager at Harborview Medical Center, while Mark is a Program Manager at T-Mobile.
Veronica Bella
Veronica is a 9-year old musically talented child who was largely self-taught in playing musical instruments and has been singing her way into the hearts of audiences in school and in the past 6 years in Pagdiriwang.
Veronica's renowned musical talent has been very dynamic that embodies the beauty of expression from being a scholar and at the same time an artist in her school talent shows. She was chosen as a child cantor at St. Matthew Parish and sang Tanging Yaman for the Simbang Gabi. Multi-talented, she was self-taught with musical instruments such as the ukulele and the keyboard.
She started singing at the age of 2. When she was 4, Veronica was invited as a guest child singer to sing ‘Let it Go.’ Her second public performance was when she was in Pre-K to sing acapella 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'. She performed at the opening of the Art Exhibit of the annual Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival in 2018 and 2019. It is such a great honor for her to sing Filipino songs that connects her to her Filipino cultural heritage and values. Veronica is the daughter of Michelle Bella and William McPeak.