Kyla

Melanie Hernandez Calumpad (born January 5, 1981), better known by her stage name Kyla, is an R&B singer from the Philippines with EMI Music & PolyEast Records.

The third child of four, Kyla entered singing contests and won a contest sponsored by the Manila radio station DZRH in 1991. In 1993, she was crowned champion for seven straight weeks in another contest and won the annual title, with the song “I Am Changing” as her winning piece. She later joined the Wednesday group of That’s Entertainment, an afternoon variety show on GMA Network using her real name, Melanie, as her screen name.

Kyla graduated high school in San Sebastian College – Recoletos.

With Octo Arts’ EMI Label Manager, Francis Guevarra, she recorded a demo for a pop song, “One More Try,” he gave her the stage name ‘Kyla’ (princess).

At the age of 20, Kyla released her debut album, Way To Your Heart, under Octo Arts EMI in 2001, which later produced the singles “Bring It On” and “Hanggang Ngayon,” which won at the MTV Video Music Awards as the International Viewer’s Choice Awardee for Southeast Asia making her the first and the only local female artist to have won at the VMAs. MTV Pilipinas also awarded Kyla “Favorite Female Video and Favorite New Artist.

In March 2002, she graduated from the Philippine Christian University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communication.

Kyla’s next album, Kyla, contained the R&B/Pop song “I Feel For You” as the carrier single. She collaborated with Gary Valenciano for his single “Let’s Stop and Talk Awhile.” She also collaborated with Malaysian R&B artist, Ferhad for his single “What More”

Kyla released her third album, I Will Be There, which is also the title of her ballad carrier single on May 23, 2003. She performed the song “Flexin” with the UK R&B group Blue at the MTV Asia Awards in Singapore that same year. Kyla made special appearances in sitcoms and made her acting debut in the telenovela Narito Ang Puso Ko.

Kyla opened 2004 with her birthday celebration at SOP with a surprise duet from American singer-songwriter and producer, Keith Martin. Kyla had included one of his songs in her Perfefctly Acoustic compilation album released December 2003.

In 2004, she released the album, Not Your Ordinary Girl. It spawned five number-one singles: “Because of You”, “Human Nature”, “If the Feeling Is Gone”, “Not Your Ordinary Girl”, and “Till They Take My Heart Away”. In addition to that she had a concert entitled Kyla “Not Just Your Ordinary Girl” held in Araneta Colliseum and it was a certified sold out concert.

From 2006 to 2007, Kyla hosted Popstar Kids, which aired on QTV.

In 2006, Kyla released her fifth album, Beautiful Days for which Kyla co-wrote the number one single “Beautiful Days”. She also began dating PBA Basketball Player, Rich Alvarez.

In 2007, she released her sixth album, Heartfelt. The album contained 17 tracks, including “I Don’t Want You to Go” and “It’s Over Now”.

After Heartfelt, she released and co-produced her seventh album, 2008′s Heart 2 Heart. The album produced the 2009 singles “Old Friend” and “Back in Time”, written by Jay-R. “Back in Time” won “OPM Song of the Year” at the RX 93.1 Awards and “Best Collaboration Award” at the Wave 89.1 Urban Music Awards. In 2010, “Back in Time” also won “Favorite song” at the MYX Music Awards. The album also features the song “You Make Me Feel” which Kyla wrote with Jay-R.

Kyla has appeared on the variety show SOP Rules, which airs on GMA Network every Sunday. She also sings duets with Jay-R, in a segment called “Souled Out”.

On February 14, 2010, Kyla joined fellow R&B artists Jay-R and Billy Crawford and Nikki Gil for a special concert.

Kyla received nominations at 2010 MYX Music Awards including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Mellow Video- Old Friend, Favorite Collaboration and Favorite Song for “Back in Time” with Jay-R; and Favorite Remake for the album Heart 2 Heart. Kyla tied with Sarah Geronimo, both receiving five nominations.

Kyla has won at the MTV Video Music Awards as the International Viewer’s Choice for Southeast Asia Awardee.

Shows

• Party Pilipinas
  Sundays 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• Hole in the Wall (as guest)
  July 20, 2010

Concerts

• Concert with JayR
  October 1&2, 2010 at Music Museum
• US tour
  2nd week-last week of October
• Show at Mandarin Hotel
  November 13&20, 2010

Gigs and Mall Tours

• August 01, 2010 – Rob Galleria
  August 06, 2010 – Rob. Sta Rosa Market
  August 08, 2010 – Rob Place Dasma
  August 15, 2010 – Rob Novaliches
  August 22, 2010 – Rob Starmills Pampanga
  August 29, 2010 – Robinsons Metroeast

Album

Kyla: Essence of Soul Tracklist

CD 1:
1.Hanggang Ngayon
2.Because of You
3.Back In Time
4.Old Friend
5.It’s Over Now
6.’Til They Take My Heart Away
7.You Make Me Feel
8.One Day in Your Life
9.Nasaan Ka Na
10.If I Were You
11.Someone To Love
12.I’ll Be Over You
13.Bring It On
14.If The Feeling Is Gone

CD 2:
1.Heart To Heart
2.Love Will Lead You Back
3.Not Your Ordinary Girl
4.Beatiful Days
5.Say That You Love Me
6.Human Nature
7.I Feel For You
8.One More Try
9.Make Me Whole
10.I Will Be There
11.Somewhere Over The Rainbow
12.Ngayong Wala Ka Na
13.I Don’t Want You To Go
14.Hanggang Wakas (Duet with Hazami)

Magazines

Check out Kyla as one of the cover girls for MEGA July 2010 (Carla Abellana on the main cover)

Fan and Official Sites

• http://kylaonline.multiply.com/
• http://princesskyla.multiply.com/
• http://kylaforever.com/main/

Follow Kyla @

• http://twitter.com/kyla_and_music

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