Top Ten International Celebrity with Filipino Blood
Enrique Eglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias y Preysler (born on May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish pop singer-songwriter. He is the son of singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina Isabel Preysler.
Iglesias's career started on Indie label Fonovisa who helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States, selling more Spanish albums than any other artists in that period of time. Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover into the mainstream English market and signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums.
Iglesias has had two Billboard Hot 100 #1s and one #3, and he holds the record for producing eighteen number #1 Spanish-language singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. His album sales currently total over 56.6 million albums, making him one of the biggest-selling Spanish musical artists in the world.
Rob Schneider
He was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. He is the son of Jewish-American real estate broker Marvin Schneider, and Pilar (née Monroe), a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president;his maternal grandfather was a European-American soldier and his maternal grandmother was Filipina. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982.
He starred in the film Deuce Bigelow:European Gigolo, The Animal and The Hot Chick.
Nicole Scherzinger
Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Filipino father and a Hawaiian/Russian mother. Her mother Rosemary was 18 at the time of Nicole's birth and lived in a inner city neighborhood, and separated from her father when Nicole was a baby.Then they moved to Louisville, Kentucky with her sister Ke'ala and German-American stepfather Gary Scherzinger, who adopted the children.
She is the lead singer of the disbanded Pussycat Dolls. She released her first album :My Name is Nicole
Mutya Buena
Her family currently lives in Kingsbury, London. Her father is of Filipino descent from Tagbilaran City, Bohol, while her mother is half Irish, quarter Chinese and quarter Spanish. She attended Kingsbury High School. Her name "Mutya" means "muse" or "pearl" in Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines. She has five brothers (Bayani, Charlie, Chris, Danny and Roberto) and two younger sisters, Ligaya and Dalisay; another sister, Maya, died in 2002, and the song "Maya" on the album Three is dedicated to her. On March 23, 2005, Mutya gave birth to 5lb 10oz Tahlia-Maya Buena, her first child with boyfriend Jay, which was rumoured to be one of the reasons she left the Sugababes. She named her child Tahlia-Maya in memory of her sister, Maya.
Her single “Real Girl” went no.2 in UK Top Chart.
Vanessa Hudgens
Hudgens was born in Salinas, California, the daughter of Gina (née Guangco) and Greg Hudgens.She has a younger sister, Stella Hudgens, who is also an actress. Hudgens's father is an American of Irish and Native American descent, and her mother, who grew up in Manila, is a Filipino-born of Filipino, Spanish and Chinese descent. Hudgens has been home-schooled since after her seventh-grade year at the Orange County High School of the Arts.
Starting at the age of eight, Hudgens performed in musical theater as a singer, and appeared in local productions of Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, The Music Man, and Cinderella, among others. Hudgens successfully auditioned for a commercial and subsequently moved to Los Angeles with her family, with whom she is still close.
She became more popular when she played a role of Gabriella in Disney’s High School Musical.
APL of Black Eyed Peas
Allan Pineda Lindo, (b. 28 November 1974) better known as apl.de.ap, is a hip hop musician, record producer, and member of the The Black Eyed Peas. He was born in the Barangay (Barrio) of Sapang Bato, Angeles City, Pampanga, in the Philippines, to a Filipino mother and African American father
Michael Copon
Michael Copon was born in Chesapeake, Virginia on November 13, 1982 to a Filipino American father and a German American mother. He was cast by the Fox Kids Network as Blue Power Ranger, Lucas, on Power Rangers Time Force less than a year after he graduated from Deep Creek High School in 2001. During that same time, Copon was also working as a print model in Los Angeles. Copon was named one of People magazine’s “50 Hottest Bachelors” in 2005.
Copon started his acting career on Power Rangers Time Force and is most notably recognized for his recurring role as "Felix" in the show One Tree Hill. He has also had roles in the shows Scrubs, Reno 911!, That's So Raven, Even Stevens and appeared in the films All You've Got alongside Ciara, Elevator, and Sideliners. He currently co-stars in The N original series Beyond The Break. He recently appeared in a lead role for the fourth installment of Bring It On: In It to Win It.
Vannessa Minnillo
Vanessa Joy Minnillo (born November 9, 1980) is an American television personality. A former Miss Teen USA, she is mostly known for hosting Total Request Live on MTV from 2003–2007 as well her past reporting as a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She was born at Clark Air Force Base in Pampanga.
Paolo Montalban
Paolo Montalban is an American actor and singer best known for his performance in ABC/Disney's telepic of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as the Prince, opposite Brandy as Cinderella. He reprised that role in a stage version of the musical (see Cinderella) with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
He also notably played Kung Lao in the syndicated series Mortal Kombat: Conquest along with Daniel Bernhardt and Kristanna Loken.Paolo was also cast in John Dahl's The Great Raid as Sgt. Valera, and the indie flick American Adobo, as Raul.
In 2003, Paolo released a self-titled album in the Philippines.
He has appeared on Broadway in Pacific Overtures and The King And I; and off-Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Romance of Magno Rubio. He also guest starred in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Season 8, Episode 20: "Annihilated").
Born in Manila, Philippines to Paul and Vivian Montalban and younger brother of Gloria Montalban-Hamm. His family emigrated to the United States when he was a one year old and lived in a studio apartment in Manhattan's West Side across the street from The Julliard School and Lincoln Center. He is a notable alumnus of St. Peter's Preparatory School and holds a degree in pre-med Psychology from Rutgers University.
Jocelyn Enriquez
Jocelyn Enríquez is a Dance-pop singer from San Francisco (born December 28, 1974). She is of Filipino descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan.
She started with an all girl group in high school the Pinay Divas, a reference to girl group En Vogue who were known as the Funky Divas. Her debut album, Lovely was released in 1994 on Classified Records. The album featured two moderate chart hits with, her debut single, "I've Been Thinking About You" and "Make It Last Forever." In 1996, she moved to Tommy Boy Records, where she released her her first major hit single, "Do You Miss Me?" in late 1996 and her second album, Jocelyn in early 1997. Jocelyn peaked at #182 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at #11 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. Jocelyn Enriquez graduated from Pinole Valley High School in 1993.
"Do You Miss Me?" became a Top 40 hit at dance and pop radio (#17 and #38 peaks, respectively), and peaked at #49 on the Hot 100. The single was also successful outside of the U.S. where it reached #7 in Singapore and was a Top 20 Pop hit in Canada. Its follow up, "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" was not quite as big a radio hit, failing to cross over to the pop stations and peaking at #25 at dance radio. However, it had stronger sales than "Do You Miss Me?" (peaking at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, as opposed to #8), which enabled it to reach #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" is remembered to this day, due to its recent inclusion on the DDRMAX2 PlayStation 2 game. Pop punk band Lucky Boys Confusion later covered "Do You Miss Me" on their 2001 album [Throwing the Game].
