OPM Artists Going International

Aside from the first batch of international artist that I have featured, we still have OPM artists that needs credit. They also made mark not only here but in other countries. I'm referring to Billy Crawford, Nikki Gil and Sam Concepcion.

Billy Crawford

He is a Filipino-American musician, actor, and host. His musical influences are R&B, pop and soul. When he was still a child, he is more known as "Billy Joe Crawford" when he is with That's Entertainment. When he was 11 he flew to United States and started his singing career. When he came back to the Philippines, he singed a contract with ABS-CBN and became one of the host of Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2. He is one of the regular host of ASAP as well. He has a total of 6 albums to date: Billy Crawford (1999); Trackin' (2001); Ride (2001); Big City (2004); Big City Tour Live (2005) and It's Time (2008)

Nikki Gil

She started as a model for a soda commercial. After that commercial, she was handpicked to be one of the Myx VJ's. She also became one of the host of ASAP in ABS-CBN. She made a mark in the international scene when she did a collaboration of "Breaking Free" with other Asian artist namely, Vince Chong (Malaysia) and Alicia Pan (Singapore). She was also chosen to sing the High School Musical 2 OST "Gotta Go My Own Way".

Sam Concepcion

He emerged as the Brightest Star for the Bigt Division of Little Big Star Season 1. He shared the international scene when he was chosen by Dreamworks to sing Kung Fu Panda's OST which is "Kung Fu Fighting". he can be seen as one of the performers in ASAP every Sunday noon.



Hope that we can produce more of them!