Sometimes, we just find ourselves making a full circle. In recent weeks, we encountered a few celebrities who returned to a place where they felt comfortable, happy and at home.
After 38 years, singer Martin Nievera found himself coming home to Vicor Music, the very first recording label he signed up with in 1982. Nievera released a total of six albums with the label, before spreading his wings to explore other career opportunities.
Most memorable were Nievera’s signature songs like “Be My Lady,” the MetroPop Festival competition winner “Pain,” “Each Day With You,” “Please Don’t Throw My Love Away,” and the now classic “Ikaw ang Lahat sa Akin.”
The original Vicor Music was established more than 50 years ago, by Viva top honcho Vic del Rosario and his cousin, Orly Ilacad. “Martin will be the momentous start of greater things to come for the Vicor label. We are all excited for fresh collaborations and we have great plans for Martin and his music,” beamed del Rosario. For his part, Nievera says he is beyond delighted. “I share music history with Vicor, my home for many, many years when I was starting my music career. I think I was just around 19 then, fresh from the United States. I am really excited and looking forward to see what we could create together. It feels great to be back home.”
Actress Tanya Garcia, who married politician-actor Mark Lapid is also back in front of the GMA cameras after six years in hiatus. “I focused on raising my children and strengthening the foundations that keep our family strong and happy. While I was absent from acting, my husband was active as an actor for some time as a cast member of Ang Probinsyano.”
Garcia started her stint with GMA back in 2000, and she even had a love team with Dingdong Dantes for a few years. In 2007, while doing Super Twins, she got pregnant with her first child so she had to stop. Garcia returned in 2011 and worked until 2014. Her last show was titled Strawberry Lane.
Today, Garcia is locked-in somewhere in the province of Batangas working on her character in the new GMA series Babawiin Ko ang Lahat. “Nakaka-miss, that’s why I said yes when this new show was offered. It feels good to be back after six years.”
Veteran actor Allan Paule continues to be one of the busiest character actors even during the pandemic. Despite his busy schedule, he couldn’t let the chance pass when he was offered an important role in the movie Anak ng Macho Dancer.
In 1988, Paule was launched to stardom in the controversial Lino Brocka film Macho Dancer, pitting talents with now Bulacan Gov. Daniel Fernando who incidentally took home the Gawad Urian best actor for this movie. Paule played the role of a poor teenager from the province who was dumped by his American military lover after his tour of duty, and is forced to embrace the underground world of go-go boys in the big city, lured by his roommate-buddy, played by Fernando.
“I am just happy that I was able to make my schedule work to be able to accommodate this new movie, where I will play the father of the lead character, also a macho dancer,” Allan said. The new movie is directed by Joel Lamangan and it will launch a new discovery by the name of Sean de Guzman, a member of the sing and dance boy group Clique V.
Martin Nievera, Tanya Garcia and Allan Paule all believe that things unfold at the right time and they all completely embraced life’s inevitable cycles, looking forward to making more full circles in the future.