Simply Belle

Update: The CD party was a huge success. The room was packed with people. She sold all the CDs. Now, she needs mom to send her a box of CDs ASAP. She performed really well and got lots of applause. People asked for encore. She sang “At The Edge,” “Trust,” and a couple of new songs, “Under The Moon,” and the other one I haven’t heard. She had someone play the cello for her. She also sang with the a capella group she is in.

Picture of the CD Release Party:

What: Stephanie’s CD Release Party for “Poker Face”
Where: Stanford Eating Clubs – Toyon Hall – El Capitan (Stanford University Campus in Stanford, CA) – follow the signs
When: March 3, 2008 – 8:30-10pm
Who: Stephanie Mae, plus featuring guest performances by Winston Lofton, Isaac Johnson, Girmay Zahilay, Naomi Andebrhan, Miguel Sugay, AND an a cappella group I’m in called EVERYDAY PEOPLE.

If you’re in the Bay Area, please come out and show your support! It’s gonna be a fun show!! Relax with coffee, tea, and biscotti.

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Stephanie Mae – a machinist during the day, and a singer at any other time. She is constructing a laptop board as one of her projects.

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My daughter, Stephanie, recently received a message from a woman under a username, Vange, in myspace. She said she is currently promoting Filipino talents in Asia via the net because of the sad fact that Filipinos are not well-known asian-wide. I took a quick look at the site and it appears to be valid and genuine. So, Steffi gave her a go ahead to add her profile on the site.

So, my fellow bloggers, have you heard about this site: Asian Popcorn.com Please visit the site and go to the Fan pages to take a peek at Stephanie and other Filipino talents. I even saw Charice Pempengco there, the only one I was familiar with. You guys, however, might recognize a few. And ohh, don’t forget to vote.

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Hello fellow bloggers and readers. Sorry for the blog inactivity for almost a month. Were it not for the emails I received from my friend Dine, and my dear SIL, I would have forgotten my blog permanently…hehe. Well, nothing is wrong. I have been extra busy these past weeks. You know that I hold a full time job, plus I work overtime now and then. Then I recently volunteered to manage Stephanie Mae’s myspace site because she is extremely busy at school, taking a very hard curriculum. I thought that by taking over the job of adding friends to her site, it would help her focus on her studies.

The process though of adding friends on myspace is tedious and time-consuming. I thought there should be an easy way of doing it without taking up all my time. So, I google searched and learned that there is a program that one can download for a fee of $30. I wasn’t sure if this is an effective software and would not bring in spams to the site. Nevertheless, I presented the idea to my boss, (who else, my daughter..hehe), and she suggested that we wait for a while.

Also, I found out through my friend, Dine, that managing a myspace accounts is one activity that some of her staff do at “On Assist. Com“, an online assistant. If only I have plenty of moolah, I would love to have their site do it for me for a very reasonable cost. They can help you with everything you can possibly imagine. Their services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week even on holidays. So, if you have something requiring professional attention, assistance is only click away.

On an entirely different note,

Balut anyone?

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Updates: Stephanie’s “At The Edge,” is still at the top of the list, while “Trust” moved up to #4.

You are probably tired of hearing me brag about my daughter but these type of things only come once in a great while and I thought I would document it here in my blog for retrospection.

Anyway, to make the story short, Stephanie Mae has jumped from the bottom and leaped over 9 independent artists and landed on the top of KRIM-FM 96.3, our number 1 listened to FM station in town. Here’s the list:

KRIM 96.3 FM

Kit’s Korner Indie Top 10 list for the week

Based on air play frequency

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Finally, the long-awaited CD has arrived. Sorry, it took longer than expected due to the learning curve. Next time, if ever there is a next time (we hope there will be), it will be much faster.

For those who already placed an order within the USA, please go to Stephanie Mae’s site to purchase a CD. Or you can send a check made out to Stephanie Mae for $10.99, (shipping & handling included) and mail it out to:

Stephanie Mae PO Box 1354 Payson, AZ. 85547

For those of you who placed an order from outside the USA, we are still in the process of figuring out the shipping and handling. Those from the Philippines, you may have to wait until we can provide more information on how to market the CD there. Or one option is to wait until I come home.

Thanks for your support!

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Stephanie Mae’s songs are now playing on KRIM-FM 96.3, the number 1 listened to radio station in town. Thanks to Kit Mcguire, a talented radio personality in town, for believing in her. Actually Kit has promoted several artists, and one of the them is Feist, the famous Canadian singer, who picks up four Grammy nominations: best new artist, best female pop vocal performance, best short form music video (for 1-2-3-4), and best pop vocal album (The Reminder). Feist’s popularity escalated in the recent weeks when she was featured in the ipod nano commercial. I am rooting for her!

Anyway, I have been listening to KRIM-FM 96.3 but I haven’t had the chance to hear Stephanie’s songs over the airwaves. Though my husband, Stephanie, and Lexi, on their way over for a meeting with Kit at the station last Saturday to record one-liners, happened to turn in to the radio and lo and behold, Stephanie came blasting to their ear. What a nice gesture of welcome! What other station would do that for an unknown singer? Only KRIM-FM 96.3, and I wish them all the best for giving the independent artists a chance to be heard.

Here is, by the way, the final cover for Stephanie’s CD. She said, she looks more like a young girl rather than a young adult in the previous design, thus, she reverted to the original design.

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