Mr. MUST 2010 wins Oroquieta’s Singing Ambassador

By PJTremedal, BND MisOC-CIB-OCM

Oroquieta City – Oroquieta has decided to award its Singing Ambassador to a 24 years old singer and the concurrent Mr. MUST 2010 and an education student of the prestigious Mindanao University of Science and Technology here in the City of Good Life.

Mr. Franklin O. Oclarit was awarded the championship in the recently held Search for the City Singing Ambassador to represent in the forthcoming Northern Mindanao Singing Ambassador tilt on Cagayan de Oro City under the auspices of the Department of Tourism, Regional Office 10.

The tilt is organized not only to look for new singing talents for the TV’s “Talentadong Pinoy” of TV5 but to promote the voice quality of every Oroquietanons and to show that people in this part of Mindanao got talent in singing. The Search also focuses on promoting tourism thru songs, wherein singing divas are needed to promote one’s culture and the arts.

Last September 19,2010, Oclarit conquers all of his opponents and received the cash prize of 5,000 pesos and trophy to become the champion of the Search for the Singing Ambassador. Second place goes to a young lady, Melyn T. Ansale who got her 3,000 pesos cash prize and a trophy while, another singing star Ensel D. Daulog landed third and runs away with his 2,000 pesos and a trophy, the three escape from their opponents and prove of their worth as singing ambassadors.

The other who join with their consolation prizes from the City Government Tourism Office were: Gerold Gimena, Piers Cloefed Macalisang, Jovelyn Quinones and Louie Balustre,wheregiven a 500 consolation prize for the joining the singing tilt, even they did not win in their best, they will be joining the city singing talents that will also represent the city on its Pasiklaban 2010 in the SM Mall of Asia where the Northern Mindanao region will showcase the best of the best.

The search for city’s Singing Ambassador was a joyous show held at the city’s ABC gym were people from walks of life gathered to see them sing to their best, in English and tagalong OPMs, they were judge by a prestigious group of personalities in the persons of : Mr. Sammy Abuhon, Jay Rolex Bulawan, Annie l. Abad, and Clarissa Gonzaga who composed the Board of Judges.

Meantime, City Mayor Jason Almonte in an interview said that the search is an activity that can promote the talents of Oroquietanons especially in the field of music. “The Search is the step to our singers and talents to be heard not only in their bathrooms but also to the world, especially when they became famous on their profession, and they can join the pool of famous Filipino Singers”. He said.