PDA 2 9th Gala Night

The Pinoy Dream Academy scholars performed a duet with counterpointing songs tonight. Some pairs were effective while others were not. The worst was the pair of the two probationary scholars, Bunny and Hansen. Aside from Bunny's bad singing voice due to her cyst in the throat, Hansen's voice was so weak it didn't have enough power to capture the audience's listening attention. There were screaming and clapping in the audience but we all know it's due to Hansen's physical attributes and not really because of his singing. On the other hand, Inaki and Cris were like doing their first recital for voice lessons.

Laarni's nerves got through her singing on the first part of her song (On the Wings of Love) but she showed such power towards the middle till the end of the song which resulted in her being the star scholar for this week with the grade of 8.97. And as part of being the star scholar, she will be performing live at ASAP '08 Sunday after tomorrow. On ASAP tomorrow is Bugoy who was last week's star scholar.

The other two who was part of the top 3 are Poy and Bugoy. Bugoy is really an exceptional singer except for his diction and that was what the judges noticed. But as Lani Misalucha said, it could easily be corrected.

The showdown between Poy and Liezel was disappointing on Liezel's part. They sang Got To Be Real and Liezel was pitchy all over. It showed her voice's mediocrity when partnered with another soprano.

Resident juror Gerard Salonga was back from (as Billy Crawford put it) "his two-week hiatus". He joined the other resident judge Louie Ocampo and guest judge Lani Misalucha in judging tonight's gala performances.

Bunny was evicted tonight for getting only 39.65% of text votes against Hansen's 60.35%.

Among the eight scholars, Hansen got the lowest grade of 6.30 followed by Inaki who got 7.27. Also part of the bottom four were Cris with a 7.43 and Miguel with a 7.50. Hansen was saved by the mentors and Cris was eventually saved by the scholars.

The two who are on probation this week are the two lasallites Inaki and Miguel. Voting starts Monday.