Multi platinum Singer Yeng Constantino | Photos

If you are a regular listener of Philippine local radio, it is impossible that you haven't heard "Hawak Kamay" by Filipina singer and host Josephine "Yeng" Constantino. Her singles and albums from Star Records have reached multi-platinum status.

Yeng was discovered through the Philippine version of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy. She was awarded the "Grand Star Dreamer" of Pinoy Dream Academy.

And she is not only a singer but a composer as well. Her debut album "Salamat", which had seven (7) original compositions from a total of 10 songs, was a multi-platinum record.

Miss Constantino has appeared as host and performer in various ABS-CBN shows, including Music Uplate Live, Pinoy Dream Academy: Season 2 - Special Primer, Myx Music Awards 2007 and the Sunday noontime variety show ASAP.

Her discography includes Salamat (2007), Journey (2008), Lapit (2009), Yeng Versions Live (2011), and four volumes of Pinoy Dream Academy Originals.

Her singles in the top 20 charts include Hawak Kamay and Pangarap Lang, If We Fall In Love (with RJ Jimenez) (2006), Salamat, Cool Off, Time In, Wag Mong Iwan ang Puso Ko, Habambuhay, Pasko sa Pinas (2007), Ikaw lang Talaga, 'Di na Ganun, Sabihin Mo Na (My Girl Pinoy Ver. Theme), Himig ng Pag-ibig (Dyosa Theme), Lapit, Galing ng Pinoy (2009), Sana, Wag Kang Magtatanong, Jeepney Love Story, Wag Na (2010), Siguro, Paniwalaan Mo (2010), and Pag-ibig (2012).

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Filipina-Indian Beauty Queen Venus Raj

Born as Maria Venus Bayonito Raj on July 7, 1988, our featured Pinay celebrity represented the Philippines in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada, placing fourth runner-up to Mexico's Ximen Navarrete.

She is a mixed Asian, of Indian and Filipino descent. Raised by her mother, a former tenant farmer and dressmaker in the rural town of Bato, Camarines Sur, Miss Venus Raj was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. For twenty years, she lived in a wood and bamboo hut with no electricity in the middle of a rice field.

The Filipina-Indian beauty, who at the Miss Universe pageant stood at 5 foot 9 inches with very slim 22 inch waistline, graduated cum laude at the Bicol University in Albay with a degree in Communication Arts, major in Journalism.

She has been crowned in various pageants: as Miss Bicolandia, Miss Philippines Earth Eco Tourism in 2008, and finally Binibining Pilipinas Universe in March 2010, where she coined the term "major major" in the question and answer portion with American actor William Baldwin.

Miss Raj signed up an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN on January 2011, where she has starred and guested in various TV programs such as Wansapanataym, Maalala Mo Kaya: Korona, Kris TV, Happy Yipee Yehey, ASAP, among others. She is now a regular host of the morning program, Umagang Kay Ganda.

In 2012, she is cast in the movie "Pridyider" by Regal Films.

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source: Wikipedia