EVENT COVERAGE: Julie Anne San Jose in Hologram | 12.13.14

Asia’s Pop Sweetheart Julie Anne San Jose conquered the SM Mall of Asia Arena on December 13, 2014 for her first Hologram concert.

Julie Anne San Jose is a Filipina singer and actress who is a contract artist of GMA Network. San Jose started her first TV experience upon joining Eat Bulaga’s Little Miss Philippines when she was three years old. She also joined ABS-CBN’s Munting Miss U and won third runner-up. As a child, she appeared in a commercial with Sharon Cuneta but she did not pursue show business until Popstar Kids, a singing competition that she joined in 2005 hosted by R&B singer-songwriter Kyla. Although Julie Anne did not win the grand prize, she became part of Sugarpop, the show’s spin-off children singing group. The group released two studio albums, Sugar Pop and Sugar Pop Repackaged, they also had a show on QTV 11 entitled Planet Q, where a young Julie Anne and her group mates showcased their hosting abilities. Sugarpop also performed weekly in the GMA-7’s variety show, SOP and known as Party Pilipinas.

Julie Anne is one of Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit’s (OPM) active Junior Ambassador. Her job as a junior ambassador is basically to represent and promote Filipino Music to the young generation.

Julie Anne is currently seen regularly as a performer in Sunday All Stars, she also played the lead role in now finished Primetime TV Show Kahit Nasaan Ka Man as Pauline Gomez. Aside from those, she also plays a recurring character named Nikki in GMA-7’s Pepito Manaloto and is also set to release her second solo studio album entitled Deeper on June 1, 2014 via iTunes worldwide and spinnr.ph.

And now, after a long journey in her career, she marked her own major and first holographic concert.

In her concert dubbed as Hologram, the Asia’s Pop Sweetheart brought the house down with her powerful vocals, electrifying dance moves and undeniable talent in playing various musical instruments simultaneously using the hologram technology. Hologram technology became a fad, and became common to many artists who wanted to give a try, to name is Michael Jackson. And now, Asia’s Pop Sweetheart, Julie Anne San Jose did her first holographic concert.

The concert highlighted an extravagant display of visual effects. The audience yelled for their idol and started to fill n the seats of arena. The fans were excited to see their idol singing and performing her songs and some pop songs along with her star-studded guests namely, Christian Bautista, Sam Concepcion, Jonalyn Viray, Frencheska Farr, Abra and others.

The artists from Red Models and Talents Management from DJ Mark Thompson, where he played a lot of pop music remixes. Followed by a song number from Kenzo Ortiz, a dance from Kyle and Kym Vergara and Girbadj Limpin and a very mind-blowing performance from Kris Angelica where she sang most of Regine Velasquez; song medley. They set a huge excitement for the main event.

After those special opening from Red Models, the voice of Asia’s Pop Sweetheart was heard over the arena as her first hologram appeared singing a mash up of Starships and Superbass, made the crowd excited and fans started to scream.

After her first hologram appearance, Sam Concepcion serenaded the crowd singing his revival hit from Archie D’s Mahal na Mahal, and eventually had a duet with Julie Anne San Jose singing Lost Stars.

A compiled photo of Sam Concepcion’s performance while interacting with the audience.

After serenading the crowd, another guest appeared, the You Tube sensation and known rapper Abra graced the event singing their duet “Dedma” and afterwards sang his hit “Gayuma”.

After the rap hits from Abra, the crowd were excited as Julie Anne appeared an illusions playing different musical instruments to reveal that she was playing the baby grand piano on stage. This was her second hologram appearance singing her own hits like I’ll Be There.

After, another guest appeared to serenade the crowd. Asia’s Premiere Balladeer Christian Bautista started a duet with Julie Anne San Jose with their rendition of A Thousand Years.

Julie Anne changed her costume and made an energetic performance of Beyonce Medley hits like Love On Top, Single Ladies, End of Time and Run the World.

Then after, Jonalyn Viray, Frencheska Farr joined Julie Anne San Jose for their rendition of OPM Classic Medley from Megastar Ms. Sharon Cuneta’s hits like Bituing Walang Ningning.

Jonalyn Viray, Julie Anne San Jose and Frencheska Farr singing a classic hits from Sharon Cuneta hit song Bituing Walang Ningning.

Ms. Julie Anne San Jose took time to thank her sponsors and fans who watched the Hologram concert like Ysa Botanica, My Phone, Careline, GMA Artist Center, Tarroza Entertainment Productions, GMA Network INC., Unisilver, Loreal Professional, SM Accessories, David Salon, Acqua Bella Penshoppe and more.

Thanking her sponsors made Julie Anne emotional. She even took time to share how thankful she was for her fans and people who believed in her despite of showbizness intrigues.

She sang the Ysa Botanica commercial jingle and after prepared the crowd for another highlight of her concert.

Julie Anne San Jose made a pending suspense appearance for her fans until she appeared in her third and last hologram of the night. She appeared having an illusion of mirror for herself while singing Dark Horse, Roar and Girl On Fire.

After her rendition of Katy Perry and Alicia Keys medley, she ended the show performing a remixes of some popular songs nowadays. She interacted with her fans as she walked down the stage and afterwards returned to stage barefooted and started to make a bang with confetti and crowd screaming.

As she ended her show.

The concert ended well. Fans enjoyed their idol’s show and to which Julie Anne San Jose made a photo meet and greet with fans to personally thank them.