![\"\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/FACEBOOK-POSTER.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAn interesting mix of soft rock and R&B classics shall take music fans on a nostalgic trip back to the \u201880s as three noted foreign acts get together in a retro concert in April that will showcase some of the era\u2019s best in popular music.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ovation Productions is presenting the three foreign artists together in what is dubbed \u201cThrowback Thursday\u201d as it\u2019s summer offering. Also featured is popular Pinoy band Passage.<\/em><\/p>\n Known for his signature falsetto, El DeBarge was the focal point and lead singer of the American family group DeBarge from the early to mid-\u201880s.\u00a0 The group\u2019s hits include \u201cTime Will Reveal, \u201cStay With Me,\u201d \u201cAll This Love\u201d, \u201cRhythm of the Night\u201d, \u201cStarlight Express\u201d, and \u201cWho\u2019s Holding Donna Now\u201d, among others.<\/p>\n After leaving the group in 1985, he launched his solo career the following year with a self-titled debut album that contained the Number Three hit, \u201cWho\u2019s Johnny?,\u201d which was featured in the film, \u201cShort Circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n Sybil Anita Lynch, known simply to music fans as Sybil, on the other hand, attained success as an R&B pop singer and songwriter during the mid-80s until the mid-90s.<\/p>\n Recognized as an excellent vocalist and one of the finest among disco divas, the American artist from New Jersey began recording in 1986 with the release of her debut single, \u201cFalling in Love,\u201d which reached the Top 30 on the R&B and Dance charts, and which opened the door to her successful career through the release of her debut album, \u201cLet Yourself Go.\u201d a year later.<\/p>\n She scored huge crossover hits in the Philippines with her song \u201cMake It Easy On Me\u201d and her cover versions of Dionne Warwick\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over\u201d in 1989 and \u201cWalk On By\u201d in 1990.<\/p>\n She attained her most successful hit in the United Kingdom with a cover of |The Love I Lost,\u201d which peaked at No.3, while its follow up, \u201cWhen I\u2019m Good and Ready,\u201d peaked at No. 5.<\/p>\n In 1997, Sybil released her greatest hits album, followed later that year by her last album to-date, \u201cStill A Friend.\u201d<\/p>\n The contemporary Hawaiian group, Kalapana, which is now on its 44th<\/sup> year in the music and entertainment industry, \u00a0gained fame for its pop and soft rock music that have made its songs, such as \u201cNight Bird\u201d, \u201cNaturally\u201d and \u201cThe Hurt,\u201d enduring island classics.<\/p>\n Kalapana \u00a0made a successful breakthrough in the international touring circuit when it performed with the LA-based fusion band Hiroshima, played at the grand opening of Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 in Honolulu and performed in two-sold out shows in the Philippines with an attendance of 10,000 each night.\u00a0It also did extensive tours in Japan, US West Coast, Tahiti, Samoa, Guam, Saipan and other Pacific islands.<\/p>\n Its successful tour in Japan with Michael Paulo of Al Jarreau\u2019s band and Tris Imboden (drummer for Chicago)\u00a0 boosted Kalapana\u2019s popularity in that country, where it has one of its largest fan bases since the 1970s,\u00a0 and landed it a five-album deal with Pony Canyon Records.<\/p>\n In 2011, Kalapana received the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts Achievement Award.\u00a0 \\The recipients were Malani Bilyyeu, Mackey Feary (posthumously, John (DJ) Pratt, Kirk Thompson, Alvin Fejarang, Michael Paulo, Randy Aloya, Gaylord Holomalia and Kenji Sano.<\/p>\n Kalapana was last seen in the Philippines in 2012 when it had a three-night, three-city concert tour with folk rock band America produced by Ovation Productions. — #<\/p>\n \u00a0Event details:<\/strong><\/p>\n What:\u00a0THROWBACK THURSDAY<\/p>\n When: April 27, 2017, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n Where: Smart Araneta Coliseum<\/p>\n Ticket details:\u00a0Tickets prices are P4500, 4000, 3500, 2500, 1500, 1500, 750 are available online at www.ticketnet.com.ph or call (02)9115555<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ovation Productions is presenting the three foreign artists together in what is dubbed \u201cThrowback Thursday\u201d as it\u2019s summer offering. Also featured is popular Pinoy band Passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,80],"tags":[1678,1680,769,968,578,1679,1677],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quezon-city","category-concert","category-smart-araneta-coliseum","tag-el-debarge","tag-kalapana","tag-manila-concert","tag-ovation-productions","tag-smart-araneta-coliseum","tag-sybil-anita-lynch","tag-throwback-thursday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}