Fronting for Ivy Violan

I’m back after fronting for the concert of Ivy Violan at NCCC Mall just a few hours ago. It was an honor for 220 to be opening for a giant in the music business, although I must admit to feeling a little intimidated at first. We played only four songs because we were given only 15 minutes: Change The World, Someday We’ll Know, Your Love Broke Through, and Go And Sin No More. It was a good gig, although we had some problems (again!) with the sound system (it felt like the sound tech wasn’t paying attention to our needs, so focused was he on Ivy Violan). But we made the most of a semi-bad situation and managed to pull off a good show.

I was Googling for Ivy Violan’s official website but couldn’t find it, so here’s a little something about her from ClickTheCity.com:

Ivy Violan started singing at age 2 with her brothers in a band called Ivy and the Velboys and hasn't rested since. She has had numerous concerts here and abroad, and her latest concert is this year’s Valentine show with Rico J. Puno at the Manila Peninsula Ballroom. Abroad, she has appeared all over the US, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Ivy has won 11 music festival awards, a record that still has to be beaten. Among her festival awards are Grand Prize, 1991 at the 4th International Midnight Song Festival, Lahti, Finland; Grand Prize and 1st Runner-up, 1989 at the 1st ABU Golden Kite Song Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Best Singer and Grand Prize, 1988 at the Asia Pacific Singing Contest, HK.

Tonight’s concert was mounted by the Asian Center for Missions (ACM), and in the first part of the show Ivy gave a testimony of how God changed her life. Powerful stuff, and she said it was the first time her family was hearing her tell the story of her life. I’ll try to secure a copy of her testimony and post it here so that you’ll hear the story straight from her.