https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Fy9nzRgVw
A top rate performer, I was so glad to catch her at her prime life, in the best of all settings: Esplanade concert all All her hits including pop songs (all of me, 1D, Grenade, etc), Disney's (Mulan's reflections, Aladdin's a whole near world, musical, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables were sung. Other top hits including Let it Go as well as Wicked as well as several of her personal favourite songs found their way on the song list too!
Lea's realm is decisively musical, holding notes with precise power, clarity and endless tone. Giving Idina Menzel's Let it Go and Wicked a run for it's money, Lea didn't surpass, but offered a her perspective instead. It's a clear reminder that practice is critical, given that All of me wasn't done as perfectly (it was her second time performing it in 2 days).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXWgCOX6Rc
Time stood still when she belted out her hits from Miss Saigon and Les Miserables, what a singer! For A Whole New World, she asked a participant from the 'Philipine - My Voice' as a co-singer. He did really well I thought, in the first few sentences, but was completely blown away when Lea opened up, such power, control and grace!
Lea also spent time to introduce each song, with such comfort and ease, and this was never surpassed in my visits to concerts. Yet another 'first' was a medley of dancing hits, where the audience was up on their feet, with Lea ending with Abba's dancing queen, owning it and wiping out any Abba or Kylie Minogue memories completely.
Lea touched based with her Filipino roots with an almost all Filipino band with her brother as her music director. She performed several Filipino songs much to the delight of an audience with significant numbers of the Filipino community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWC7icTM_E
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Tuscany, of Sangiovese, Super Tuscans, and Chianina steak
A way over due post on the Tuscany trip. Planned amongst many, it was a trip for 8 pax, hardly easy to accommodate everyone. Here's a lunch stop in Parma, Ristorante Gallo d'Oro. The very best Parma ham I've ever tested! Not the least salty, these were mostly sweet like! nice bottle of castellardo to pair with it.
Our lovely Villa in Sienna. Way too cold to swim!
A little too cold for outdoor dining, we did have a very poorly made dinner and it was the only dinner for our week-long stay at the villa.
Yes, the drinking starts....
And the very next morning, the fight of the century between Pacquiao and May weather, and they had this FOC !(in italiant though), while in SG, we paid ~SDG$35 or so for Pay per view! brrr! And Pacquiao lost!! :(
Very touristy but still very post-card like, the city of Florence. our view during lunch!
Homage to my current favourite watch brand. The original Giovanni store in Florence!
Yes, I think the ultra rare time when I kept a paper bag..heheh.
Art is in the air, with street performers, opera singers lining corners in Florence.
One of the highlights of Tuscany is the Chianina steaks, costing 30-40 euros/kg, they're half the price as compared to in Singapore. We had 4-5 sessions of these in a week. Here Jolene knives the steak expertly.
The beautiful sloping vineyards of Tiganello.
Francesco Illy has the plot with the highest density in the world, and it makes a out of the world wine, called the Bonsai.
A place with 'everything truffles'. I was exhausted and didn't remember much of this meal.
Another wonderful tasting. Ornellaia!
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