Saturday, April 26, 2008 Pinay enters 'Britains Got Talent 2008'
ANOTHER talented Filipino singer has become the talk of the town as she is now seen and gradually known all over the world through YouTube.
Madonna Decena, 32, a single mother of two children, and now one of the potential contenders for the "Britains Got Talent 2008", which is a reality-singing contest in Britain.
In her YouTube video, Decena had won not only the sympathy and heart of the judges but also earned a standing ovation from the audience.
Before her performance in the show, the club singer shares her agony and nostalgia of being away from her two daughters that she left here in the Philippines at the care of her grandparents.
She said she had to leave her children to seek her luck abroad and one day send her two kids with her in Britain.
Right at that moment, she had captured the compassion of the hosts and the audiences.
"If I do well in this competition it will be life changing not just for me but for the kids. And it's a chance for us to be together," Decena said in her video interview.
"Now I'm singing for my girls for their future," she said following her rendition of "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston that stunned and left the people in the stadium teary-eyed.
The judges composed of English actress Amanda Louise Holden, former Mirror editor Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell, were also amazed and impressed by the performance of Decena.
Holden said, keeping not to shed tears in the video: "I don't think you need not worry because I think that you'll gonna go such a long way in this show and I you're gonna get all the money in the world and you're gonna get them (Decena's children) on the plane and their gonna be with you because you lady have got talent."
Cowell, meanwhile, knowing his reputation as a judge of different reality singing shows, was also touched by Decena's performance as he still tried the audience's reaction by saying "no" then added "I don't want to disappoint you. It's a yes."
The performance and story of Decena is now the much-awaited scenario in the reality show. She likely becomes a big winner of the United Kingdom's most popular talent search as the crowd and her performance showed.
One of her YouTube videos had been seen by almost 344,534 viewers and still counting. (JRDB/Sunnex)
