Pop singer, Ima Castro will receive the Outstanding Filipino Luminary Awards 2021 for culture and the arts at the Conrad Manila Hotel in Pasay City on September 24.
The award will be conferred on her for representing the Philippines and Filipinos all over the world with her art.
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Ima marks her 28th year in the business this year. She had started as a pop singer with two solo albums and has received a gold record award while winning numerous song festivals here and abroad.
She was chosen by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and his creative team to be a part of the Manila run of the mega musical Miss Saigon at the CCP in 2000 and was offered to play the lead role of Kim in the same production followed by Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Portugal.
Ima became a regular actress at the prestigious National Theatre Studio in the UK and recently returned to Manila and took part in musicals and concerts for Atlantis Productions and Resorts World Manila such as “AIDA, In The Heights, PIAF, The Full Monty, TARZAN, GHOST, and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert”.
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She did concerts entitled “The Broadway Showstoppers” with Leo Valdez and Joanna Ampil and “East Coast to West End” with Monique Wilson, Tanya Manalang and Leo Valdez, respectively produced by Ultimate Productions for Resorts World Manila in the year 2012 and 2014.
Handpicked as Bloody Mary for South Pacific in Concert in September 2015 at The Newport Performing Arts Theatre, she was in the cast of Spotlight Artists Centre’s Original Filipino Musical, D.O.M. (Dirty Old Musical) in Sept. 2016. (AW)
