Here are some of Sam's major achievements since then:
* Candymag's Celeb No. 1 Candy Cutie for 2 consecutive years, 2006 and 2007
* Department of Education's Youth Role Model, Ambassador for Education and Spokesperson
* Youth Ambassador for Education and the Arts in the Third District of Manila
* B4USurf Campaign Official Spokesperson for the Philippines
* First Filipino to have collaborated with Dreamworks (Kung Fu Panda Theme Song)
* 3rd MYX Music Awards' "Favorite New Artist"
* 2008 Gawad PASADO's "PinakaPASADOng Kabataan"
* 2006 KOTFA's Best Folk Performance Award at Korea
* Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards "Pinoy Wannabe" award
* Little Big Star's Brightest Star
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Get to see more of him on Lipgloss, I Love Betty La Fea, ASAP, YSpeak, and other appearances.
Don't forget to visit his official website at http://samconcepcion.net
Samuel Lawrence Lopez Concepcion, more widely known as Sam Concepcion, was born on October 17, 1992. His parents are Raymund Concepcion and Gene Concepcion. Sam also has three siblings - Kuya Red (23), Diko Kevin (22) and as Sangko Sam to their baby sister, Gabby (11). At the age of 2, he was already able to carry a tune and dance to simple songs. By the time he was 5 years old, he was already in theater. Inevitably, Sam pursued singing and dancing.
Sam's major TV exposure came via Little Big Star on ABS-CBN. Sam easily got the attention of the judges and viewers. He was initially dubbed as the Singing Crush ng Bayan and had been constantly a crowd's favorite. In fact, he was voted as "My Favorite Star" for having the most number of text votes, which comprised 52% of all the total votes. During the Grand Finals, Sam sang "I Can't Stand Still" from Footloose, one of the highly successful musicals produced by STAGES. He eventually won the whole competition with the title, "The Brightest Star" for the Big Division over equally talented kids, Gian Barbarona was a second placer while Charice Pempengco was a third placer. Since then, Sam has steadily risen towards stardom.
* Did you know Sam performed in a lot of theater production including Sino Ka Ba Jose Rizal?, Peter Pan and the Time Machine, Ragnarok, Mr.Noah's Big Boat, and High School Musical Onstage?
* Sam's favorite videoke song is Footlose and he loves singing it.
* Did you know that Sam's height is about 5'7 & 1/2 tall?
* Sam official website which is samconcepcion.net gets an average of a million hits every month.
* Sam sang in front of the president and top business delegates from other countries during the APEC business advisory council summit.
* Did you know Sam biggest dream is to record more albums and do even more theater productions and be recognized internationally?
While Sam is so busy preparing for his birthday concert on October 18 at the Music Museum, he is also busy taping scenes for I love Betty La Fea, recording for a second album under Universal Records. He is also a regular on TV5's teen drama Lipgloss and a semi-regular on ABS-CBN's ASAP `08.
Another concert from Sam will come your way! I`LL FIND YOUR HEART, THE REPEAT will be on March 5, 2009 at 8pm. Crossroad 77 (Mother Ignacia Cor. Scout Reyes, QC)
Featuring:
Cheska Ortega, Inaki Ting, Tippy Dos Santos, Sison Brother Stages Dancer, Fire Exit band, Revelations Band and more surprise guests
Sam had a very successful 1st Solo Birthday Concert last October 18, 1008 at the Music Museum.
and this coming may meron syang concert "ill find your heart 2"
Sam Concepcion is one of the Philippines' most popular and talented artist in the country. People like him because of his charisma talent and attitude. We also call him as one of Philippines' "crush ng bayan!"
Multi-talented artist and youth role model Sam Concepcion joins the cast of Trumpets’ major family musical N.O.A.H. [No Ordinary Aquatic Habitat] as the Narrator. He will share the role with theater newcomer Fred Lo beginning September 4, 2009 at the Meralco Theater.
Another milestone for Sam came last August 7, 2009 at the Malacanang Palace!
With President Gloria Arroyo as its guest of honor, United Nations Youth Association of the Philippines (UNAP) awarded Sam the prestigious UNAP Youth Leader Award! Sam is one of the 8 outstanding youth leaders of the Philippines who received the award!
Fan Girl and One Crazy Summer Book Launch
Candy EIC and author Marla Miniano joins former EIC and author Ines Bautista Yao in signing their respective books at Powerbooks Greenbelt 5.
What We Take: Style Snaps
by: marla, 2012-02-08
Current read, roomy new work bag, and an old elephant pendant I'm now using as a bag charm.
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