People: Regine Velasquez

Asiaweek
March 2, 1990

Just 19 and raring to go, Regine Velasquez wants it all. "I want to make a hit song, a hit movie, and more LPs. - in that order," she declares. "I want accomplishment soon." Not that her achievements to date are anything to sneeze at. Trained from the age of 6 by father Gerry to sing lustily while immersed up to her neck in the sea, Velasquez has already made a sizeable splash in the Philippines. She has cut two albums and matched against finalists from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan and New Zealand, walked away with the Grand Prize at the recent Asia-Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong. After sharing a Feb. 14 concert billing with mega-star Jose Mari Chan, the mermaid who came in from the cold senses that she is just hitting her stride: "That kind of success is what I've been dreaming of. Now, I want a bigger concert in a bigger venue." What about the Pacific Ocean?