on a composing stick on a type drawer.]] .]] .]] Typesetting is the composition of text material by means of types.

Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner. Typesetting is the retrieval of the stored letters (called sorts in mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems) and the ordering of them according to a language's orthography for visual display.

Letterpress era

During the letterpress era, moveable type was composed by hand for each page. Cast metal sorts were composited into words and lines of text and tightly bound together to make up a page image called a forme, with all letter faces exactly the same height to form an even surface of type. The forme was mounted in a press, inked, and an impression made on paper.

The diagram at right illustrates a cast metal sort: a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot. Wooden printing sorts were in use for centuries in combination with metal type.

Copies of formes were cast when anticipating subsequent printings of a text, freeing the costly type for other work. In this process, called stereotyping, the entire forme is pressed into a fine matrix such as plaster of Paris or papier mâché called Flong to create a positive, from which the stereotype forme was cast of type metal.

Hand composing was rendered commercially obsolete by continuous casting or hot-metal typesetting machines such as the Linotype machine and Monotype at the end of the 19th century. The Linotype, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, enabled one machine operator to do the work of ten hand compositors by automating the selection, use and replacement of sorts, with a keyboard as input. Later advances such as the typewriter and computer would push the state of the art even farther ahead. Still, hand composition and letterpress printing did not fall completely out of use, and since the introduction of digital typesetting, it has seen a revival as an artisanal pursuit. However, it is a very small niche within the larger typesetting market.

Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting or "cold type" systems first appeared in the early 1960s and rapidly displaced continuous casting machines. These devices consisted of glass disks (one per font) that spun in front of a light source which selectively exposed characters onto light-sensitive paper. Originally they were driven by pre-punched paper tapes. Later they were hooked up to computer front ends.

One of the earliest electronic photocomposition systems was introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor. The typesetter typed a line of text on a Fairchild keyboard that had no display. To verify correct content of the line it was typed a second time. If the two lines were identical a bell rang and the machine produced a punched paper tape corresponding to the text. With the completion of a block of lines the typesetter fed the corresponding paper tapes into a phototypesetting device which mechanically set type outlines printed on glass sheets into place for exposure onto a negative film. Photosensitive paper was exposed to light through the negative film, resulting in a column of black type on white paper, or a galley. The galley was then cut up and used to create a mechanical drawing or paste up of a whole page. A large film negative of the page is shot and used to make a plates for offset printing.

Digital era

The next generation of phototypesetting machines to emerge were those that generated characters on a Cathode ray tube. Typical of the type were the Alphanumeric APS2 (1963), IBM 2680 (1967), I.I.I. VideoComp (1973?), Linotron 202 (1978), and Autologic APS5 (1980?). These machines were the mainstay of phototypesetting for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Such machines could be 'driven online' by a computer front-end system or take their data from magnetic tape. Type fonts were stored digitally on conventional magnetic disk drives.

Computers excel at automatically typesetting documents. Character-by-character computer-aided phototypesetting was in turn rapidly rendered obsolete in the 1980s by fully digital systems employing a raster image processor to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image, now known as imagesetting.

The first commercially successful laser imagesetter, able to make use of a raster image processor was the Monotype Lasercomp. ECRM, Compugraphic (later purchased by Agfa) and others rapidly followed suit with machines of their own.

Early minicomputer-based typesetting software introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s such as Datalogics Pager, Penta, Miles 33, Xyvision, troff from Bell Labs, and IBM's Script product with CRT terminals, replaced these electro-mechanical devices and used text markup languages to describe type and other page formatting information. The descendants of these text markup languages include SGML, XML and HTML.

The minicomputer systems output columns of text on film for paste-up and eventually produced entire pages and signatures of 4, 8, 16 or more pages using imposition software on devices such as the Israeli-made Scitex Dolev. The data stream used by these systems to drive page layout on printers and imagesetters led to the development of printer control languages such as Adobe Systems PostScript and Hewlett-Packard's HP PCL.

on 1.4 x leading, with 0.2 points extra tracking. Extract of an essay by Oscar Wilde The Renaissance of English Art ca. 1882. ]]

Before the 1980s, practically all typesetting for publishers and advertisers was performed by specialist typesetting companies. These companies performed keyboarding, editing and production of paper or film output, and formed a large component of the graphic arts industry. In the United States these companies were located in rural Pennsylvania, New England or the Midwest where labor was cheap, and paper produced nearby, but still within a few hours' travel time of the major publishing centers.

In 1985, desktop publishing became available, starting with the Apple Macintosh, Aldus PageMaker (and later QuarkXPress) and PostScript. Improvements in software and hardware, and rapidly-lowering costs, popularized desktop publishing and enabled very fine control of typeset results much less expensively than the minicomputer dedicated systems. At the same time, word processing systems such as Wang and WordPerfect revolutionized office documents. They did not, however, have the typographic ability or flexibility required for complicated book layout, graphics, mathematics, or advanced hyphenation and justification rules (H and J).

By the year 2000 this industry segment had shrunk because publishers were now capable of integrating typesetting and graphic design on their own in-house computers. Many found that the cost of maintaining high standards of typographic design and technical skill made it more economical to out-source to freelancers and graphic design specialists.

The availability of cheap, or free, fonts made the conversion to do-it-yourself easier but also opened up a gap between skilled designers and amateurs. The advent of PostScript, supplemented by the PDF file format, provided a universal method of proofing designs and layouts, readable on major computer and operating systems.

SCRIPT variants

IBM created and inspired a family of typesetting languages with names that were derivatives of the word "SCRIPT". Latter versions of SCRIPT included advanced features such as automatic generation of a table of contents and index, multi-column page layout, footnotes, boxes, automatic hyphenation and spelling verification.

NSCRIPT was a port of SCRIPT to OS and TSO from CP-67/CMS SCRIPT.

Waterloo Script was created at the University of Waterloo later. One version of SCRIPT was created at MIT and the AA/CS at UW took over project development in 1974. The program was first used at UW in 1975. In the 1970s, SCRIPT was the only practical way to word process and format documents using a computer. By the late 1980s, the SCRIPT system had been extended to incorporate various upgrades.

The initial implementation of SCRIPT at UW was documented in the May 1975 Issue of the Computing Centre Newsletter which noted some the advantages of using SCRIPT:

a) Footnotes are handled easily.

b) Page numbers can be in Arabic or Roman numerals, and can appear at the top or bottom of the page, in the centre, on the left or on the right, or even-numbered pages and on the right for odd-numbered pages.

c) Underscoring or over striking can be made a function of SCRIPT, thus uncomplicating Editor functions.

d) SCRIPT files are regular OS databases or CMS files.

e) Output can be obtained on the printer, or at the terminal…” The article also pointed out that SCRIPT had over 100 commands to assist in formatting documents, though 8 to 10 of these commands were sufficient to complete most formatting jobs. Thus SCRIPT had many of the capabilities that computer users generally associate with contemporary word processors.

SCRIPT/VS was a SCRIPT variant developed at IBM in the 1980s.

Script is still available from IBM as part of the Document Composition Facility for the z/OS operating system.

SGML and XML systems

SGML (the Standard Generalized markup Language) was based upon GML (IBM Generalized Markup Language). GML was a set of macros on top of IBM Script.

The arrival of SGML/XML as the document model made other typesetting engines popular. Such engines include Datalogics Pager, Penta, Miles 33's OASYS, Xyvision's XML Professional Publisher (XPP), FrameMaker, Arbortext, YesLogic's Prince, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. These products allow users to program their typesetting process around the SGML/XML with the help of scripting languages. Some of them, such as Arbortext Editor and XMetaL Author, provide attractive WYSIWYG-ish interfaces with support for XML standards and Unicode to attract a wider spectrum of users.

Troff and successors

During the mid-1970s Joseph Ossanna, working at Bell Laboratories, wrote the troff typesetting program to drive a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by Brian Kernighan to support output to different equipment such as laser printers and the like. While its use has fallen off, it is still included with a number of Unix and Unix-like systems and has been used to typeset a number of high-profile technical and computer books. Some versions, as well as a GNU work-alike called groff, are now open source.

TeX and LaTeX

.]] The TeX system, developed by Donald E. Knuth at the end of 70s, is another widespread and powerful automated typesetting system that has set high standards, especially for typesetting mathematics. TeX is considered fairly difficult to learn on its own, and deals more with appearance than structure. The LaTeX macro package written by Leslie Lamport at the beginning of the 80s offered a simpler interface, and an easier way to systematically encode the structure of a document. LaTeX markup is very widely used in academic circles for published papers and even books. Standard TeX does not provide a WYSIWYG interface, though there are programs such as LyX and Scientific Workplace that provide one. Another WYSIWYG editor very much inspired by TeX is TeXmacs.

See also

Composing stick

Dingbat

Hot metal typesetting

Justification (typesetting)

Ligature (typography)

Printing

Printing press

Sort (typesetting)

Strut (typesetting)

Technical writing

Typeface

Typography

Widows and orphans

References

External links

Metal Type - For Those who Remember Hot Metal Typesetting

TeX Users Group

The Lout Document Formatting System

XML page at www.W3C.org

MathMagic - Mathematical Typesetting software for Technical writers. Works with Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and word processors.

SGML page at www.xml.org

Typesetting in the 1960 era.

TYPESET-8, the first low cost computerized type setting system

Category:Typography Category:Typesetting

Name	Nana Hedin
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Nana Hedin
Alias	NaNa, Na Na, Nana d'Aquini
Born	Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden
Instrument	vocal
Voice type	mezzo soprano
Genre	pop, soul, eurotechno/disco
Occupation	Singer, back vocalist
Years active	1994 - present
Associated acts	E-Type
Url	www.nanahedin.com

Nana Hedin, also known as Na Na and Nana d'Aquini, is a Swedish singer born May 24, 1968 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland County, Sweden.

Career

She started her career in the late 1980s as backup singer for Swedish artists such as Dr. Alban and Stakka Bo. During 1994-2004 she sang the chorus on most of E-Type's hits, including This is the Way and Set the World on Fire and started working for songwriters/producers Max Martin and Denniz PoP as backup singer for artists such as Céline Dion, Britney Spears and Ace of Base.

She has also toured Sweden along with comedian Jonas Gardell on several occasions.

Notable TV performances

Hedin and E-Type participated with the song Paradise in Melodifestivalen 2004 and went to the final in Globen. In Melodifestivalen 2005 she was present with the song Wherever You Go, but did not reach the final.

In September 2007 Hedin participated in the musical game show Doobidoo on SVT in pair with Janne Loffe Carlsson against Ingela "Pling" Forsman & Jan Johansen.

Hedin participated in the music program Så ska det låta on May 2, 2008. Musical star Fred Johansson was the team-mate against Sarah Dawn Finer and Patrik Isaksson.

Cancer

In 2009 doctors told Hedin that she has cancer in her tongue and she is therefore currently not performing on stage.

Discography

FAME 2000 (single)

It's Raining Men (2004) (single)

Wherever You Go (2005) (single)

TV appearances

Melodifestivalen 2004

Melodifestivalen 2005

Så ska det låta (02.05.2008)

Featurings

5ive

* Slam Dunk Da Funk

* 5ive: The Album (album) 1998

A*Teens

* Half Way Round the World 2001

Ace of Base

* Flowers (album) 1998

* Life is a Flower

Amadin

* Take Me Up (Alrabaiye) 1993

* U Make Me Feel Alright

Ardis Fagerholm

* Love Addict (album) 1994

Aqua

* Aquarius (album) 2000

* Cartoon Heroes 2000

* Around The World 2000

* We Belong To The Sea 2000

* Back From Mars

* Freaky Friday

* Good Guys

* Goodbye To The Circus

* Halloween

Britney Spears

* Baby One More Time

* Oops!...I Did It Again

* (You Drive Me) Crazy

* Born to Make You Happy

* Stronger

* Bombastic Love

* Don't Go Knockin' On My Door

* Baby One More Time (album) 1999

* Oops!...I Did It Again (album) 2000

* Britney (album) 2001

Céline Dion

* That's The Way It Is

* I'm Alive

* New Day Has Come (album) 2002

* One Heart (album) 2003

* On ne change pas 2005

* The Greatest Reward

* Coulda Woulda Shoulda

* Tous Les Secrets

Dana Dragomir

* PanDana (album) 1995

DJ Bobo

* World in Motion (album) 1996

* For Now And Forever

Dr. Alban

* Look Who's Talking 1994

* Away From Home 1994

* Let The Beat Go On 1994

E-Type

* Made In Sweden (album) 1994

** Do You Always

** Me No Want Miseria

** Set the World on Fire

** This is the Way

** Fight It Back

** Until the End

** Will I See You Again

* The Explorer (album) 1996

** Calling Your Name

** Back in the Loop

** I Just Wanna Be With You

** Free Like a Flying Demon

** Forever Wild

** I´m Not Alone

* Last Man Standing (album) 1998

** Angels Crying

** Here I Go Again

** Hold Your Horses

** I'm Flying

** Morning Light

** I'll Find A Way

** So Far Away

* Euro IV Ever (album) 2001

** Life

** Africa

** Arabian Star

** When I Close My Eyes

** Time

** No More Tears

* Loud Pipes Save Lives (album) 2004

** Paradise

** Far Up In The Air

** Forever More

Elephant & Castle

* DJ Keep This Feeling

Flexx

* Wake Up 1993

Garou

* One Woman Man 2003

Gary Barlow

* SuperHero

* For All That You Want

* Twelve Months Eleven Days (album)

Herbie

* I Believe 1995

Papa Dee

* First Cut is The Deepest

* Just Let the Music

* The Journey (album) 1995

* The Tide is High

Luciano Pavarotti & Friends

* Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia & Tibet

Safe

* Love is All We Need 1995

Stakka Bo

* Down the Drain 1993

* Here We Go 1993

* Living it Up

* Supermarket (album) 1993

External links

Official website

References

Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:People from Eskilstuna Category:Swedish female singers

Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco
Born	May 10, 1992 Laguna, Philippines
Genre	Pop
Occupation	Singer
Label	143/Reprise
Years active	2007–present
Url	Official Website

Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco (born May 10, 1992), better known as Charice, is a Filipina singer who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the Most Talented Girl in the World, she is the first solo Asian artist in history to land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.

Crossing over to television acting, she has appeared on the TV series Glee where she plays a guest star named Sunshine Corazon. Charice is currently working on her sophomore studio album, on which she will collaborate with Sean Garrett.

Early life

Pempengco was born in Laguna, Philippines. Raised by a single mother, she helped support the family by joining amateur singing contests at age seven, from town fiestas in various provinces to singing competitions on TV.

In 2005, Pempengco joined Little Big Star, a talent show in the Philippines loosely patterned after Pop Idol. Eliminated after her first performance, she was later called back as a wildcard contender and eventually became a finalist.

Pempengco made minor appearances on local television shows and commercials, but essentially had fallen off the radar after her stint at Little Big Star. It was not until 2007 that she gained worldwide recognition after an avid supporter started posting a series of her performance videos on YouTube under the username FalseVoice. These videos received over 13 million hits which, according to Reyma Buan-Deveza, makes Pempengco a "YouTube singing sensation".

Career

Discovery (2007–2008)

Charice has often cited singers such as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey as a colossal source of inspiration, which sparked her passion in music and gave her the drive to aspire to sing better.

In June 2007, Ten Songs/Productions, a music publishing company in Sweden, invited Pempengco to a demo-recording after producers saw her Little Big Star videos. She recorded seven songs – six covers and an original song entitled "Amazing".

For being one of the finalists of Little Big Star, she was invited to the South Korean talent show Star King. On its October 13, 2007 edition, she sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and a duet with Kyuhyun, from Super Junior.

After watching her Star King performance on YouTube, Ellen DeGeneres extended an on-air invitation to Pempengco to guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She flew to the United States for the first time and performed two songs on the December 19, 2007 episode of the show – "I Will Always Love You" and "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going".

Following her American debut on Ellen, she made a second appearance on Star King as the "Most Requested Foreign Act" of the show. On its December 28 edition, she performed Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" and sang a duet with singer Lena Park.

In January 2008, she was invited to the Malacañang Palace where she performed for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. She returned to the international scene when she guested on the April 8 episode of The Paul O'Grady Show in London, England.

Her self-titled Philippine debut album Charice was released in May 2008. The mini album, consisting of six songs and six backing tracks, was awarded gold certification in the Philippines in October 2008. The album eventually achieved platinum status in 2009.

Pempengco appeared on the May 12 edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show in an episode entitled the "World's Smartest Kids", where she performed Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing. After the show, Oprah Winfrey contacted David Foster to see what the legendary music producer could do for Pempengco.

She made her debut on the international concert stage in Foster's May 23 tribute concert, Hitman: David Foster and Friends, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. She performed a medley of songs from The Bodyguard as well as her standard, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going". A CD/DVD of the concert, including Pempengco's The Bodyguard medley, was released on November 11, 2008. The show was aired several times on PBS and other public television networks starting in December 2008 under the Great Performances banner.

One of the singers at the concert was Pempengco's idol, Andrea Bocelli. Bocelli subsequently expressed interest in performing a duet with her and personally invited her to be a guest on his birthday concert "The Cinema Tribute" held on July 20 at the Teatro del Silenzio in his hometown of Lajatico, Tuscany, Italy. Aside from her solo performance, she sang a duet of "The Prayer" with the famous tenor in front of more than 8,000 people.

She was invited to perform for the Feyenoord's Centennial Anniversary in the Netherlands held on September 26. Before a crowd of about 50,000 football (soccer) fans, she sang the team's anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone."

When she guested on the "Dreams Come True" episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 9, Oprah referred to her as "The Most Talented Girl in the World." She sang Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" with David Foster on piano, after which Oprah surprised her with an appearance by Celine Dion via satellite, who invited her to sing a special duet at New York City's Madison Square Garden as part of Dion's Taking Chances Tour.

She performed her promised duet with Celine Dion on September 15. They sang "Because You Loved Me," dedicated to Pempengco's mother. The performance received rave reviews in The New York Post and The New York Times. The duet was eventually featured on the September 19 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She would then perform at the Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children Benefit Concert at the Wynn Las Vegas casino resort.

In November, she and David Foster guested on Good Morning America to promote Foster's tribute album, Hitman: David Foster and Friends. She performed The Bodyguard medley and "I Will Survive."

Move to the United States (2009–2010)

In January 2009, Pempengco performed at two US presidential pre-inaugural events in Washington, D.C., namely the Martin Luther King Jr "Realizing The Dream" gala at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and at the "Pearl Presidential Inaugural Gala" at the Mandarin Hotel.

In February, she performed at two post-Oscar award events: Oscar Night at Mr. Chow's and Oprah's Oscar After Party held in Kodak Theatre. She debuted a new original song entitled "Fingerprint" composed by Robbie Nevil and produced by David Foster.

In April, she appeared in the season premiere of Ti lascio una canzone, an Italian musical variety show televised from Teatro Ariston in the city of Sanremo. She performed "I Will Always Love You", "I Have Nothing", "The Prayer", and "Listen". Later that same month, she would go on to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of 57,000 baseball fans during the Los Angeles Dodgers 52nd season home opener at Dodger Stadium.

In May, she released her Philippine second album entitled My Inspiration. The album consisted of 12 tracks, including "Always You" and a cover of Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World" performed as a duet with her mother. The album was certified gold in the Philippines within two months after release, and then platinum in December 2009. Also in May, she would again perform at a David Foster and Friends concert held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On the May 18 episode "Finale: Oprah's Search for the World's Most Talented Kids" of The Oprah Winfrey Show, she debuted her first internationally released single "Note to God", written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. The single was made available for digital download on the same day and debuted at #24 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart, #44 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, #9 on the Hot Canadian Digital Singles chart and #35 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. Later that same month, she was again invited to sing at the Ti lascio una canzone show as a special guest.

She staged her first major concert called: Charice: The Journey Begins on June 27 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Philippines to a sold-out crowd.

Pempengco contributed to two Christmas albums in 2009. The first as David Archuleta's duet partner for the song "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in his Christmas album entitled Christmas from the Heart. The second is a compilation Christmas album entitled A Very Special Christmas Volume 7 in which she contributed her own rendition of "The Christmas Song". She was one of the headlining acts in the David Foster and Friends 10-City North American Tour that ran during the fall of 2009.

She made a cameo appearance in her first feature film, , released in North America on December 23. She is also part of the with her rendition of "No One" by Alicia Keys accompanied by The Chipettes. Later in the month, she appeared on Singapore Idol's grand finale episode as a guest performer, where she performed two of her signature songs, The Bodyguard medley and "Note to God".

Charice (2010–present)

in 2010]] On January 23, 2010, she appeared on Io Canto, a renowned singing competition in Italy. She performed her standards plus an Italian favorite called "Adagio" (made popular by Lara Fabian), in Italian. On January 31, she was featured as one of the musical acts on the NBC Sports program Silk Soy Milk Skate for the Heart, a show designed to raise awareness of heart disease. She performed "Note to God" and debuted two new songs included in her debut album, "In This Song" and "Breathe Out" (later retitled as "Breathe You Out").

The album version and club remixes of her second single, "Pyramid" (featuring Iyaz), from her international debut album were released on February 23, 2010 and March 2, 2010. The Pyramid Remixes EP debuted at #46 on the Billboard Dance/Club play songs charts and quickly soared to #1 spot.

Her self-titled international debut album with Reprise Records was released on May 11, 2010. On its first week, the album reached #8 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, making her the first Asian to enter the Top 10. On the same day as part of her album launching, she again made a guest appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show along with another YouTube-discovered singer Justin Bieber.

On June 22, Pempengco herself confirmed that she will join the cast of the hit US television series Glee on its second season. Later in the week, she released a promotional single entitled "Crescent Moon" in Japan. The single is an English rendition of the Japanese song "Mikazuki" by Ayaka.

During the inauguration of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on June 30, 2010, she sang the Philippine national anthem in front of a crowd estimated at more than half a million. In July, she embarked on her first Asian tour covering Thailand, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, where she appeared on the show Star King for the third time.

On November 30, she appeared on NBC's Christmas in Rockefeller Center and performed "Grown-up Christmas List" and "Jingle Bell Rock" with producer and mentor David Foster.

Voice

In an ABC News interview, David Foster mentioned that she has the ability to mimic other people's voices, which, according to him, is a characteristic of good singers. In a separate interview, Josh Groban stated that Charice's voice is one of the most beautiful voices he has heard in a long time. The New York Post once called her a vocal prodigy for being able to sing 'big songs' even in her tender age.

Awards and recognitions

Walk of Fame, the Philippine equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.]]

3rd Place – Little Big Star Big Division, Season 1, Philippines

Most Requested Foreign Act of 2007 – StarKing, South Korea

Most Memorable Moment of 2007 – The Ellen DeGeneres Show, USA

Pinoy World Class Talent – 20th Year Anniversary of the Music Museum, 2008, Philippines

Key To The City of Rotterdam – Mayor Ivo Opstelten, 2008, The Netherlands

Best New Female Recording Artist – Aliw Awards, 2008, Philippines Newsmaker of the Year 2008, 2009 and 2010 – Balitang America, USA People of the Year 2008 – People Asia Magazine, 2009, Philippines Plaque of Recognition – The Spirit of EDSA Foundation, 2009, Philippines Special Citation Award – MYX Music Awards 2009, Philippines National Newsmaker of the Year 2008 – Ateneo de Davao University TAO Awards, 2009, Philippines Outstanding Global Achievement – 40th Box Office Entertainment Awards (Guillermo Awards), 2009, Philippines Best Musical Performance of 2009 – The Oprah Winfrey Show, USA Person of the Year for 2009 – Philnews.com, Philippines MDWK Magazine's Top Newsmakers of 2009 – Asian Journal's MDWK Magazine, Philippines ANC's Newsmaker of the Year 2009 – Philippines

Fun, Fearless Female Award – Cosmopolitan Magazine Philippines, 2010

21 Under 21: Music's Hottest Minors (Number 4) – Billboard, 2010 USA Icon of Tomorrow – J-14 Magazine, 2010 USA

BPInoy Award: Outstanding Filipino – Bank of the Philippine Islands, 2010 Philippines

Top 4 Yahoo!'s 2010 Most Irresistible Lyrics 'Pyramid' – Yahoo!, 2010 USA

Top 7 Favorite Album of 2010, Reader's Choice: 'Charice' -Billboard

Top 17 Best Dance Club Songs of 2010 'Pyramid' – Billboard

Top 59 Japan Hot 100 Songs of 2010 'Pyramid' – Billboard

Best Overall Female Vocal Performance of the Year: "Note to God" -Filipino American Vocal Arts Society Online Music Awards

Discography

Studio albums

{|class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2"| Certification |- !style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"|US !style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"|CAN !style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"|JPN |- |2008 |Charice^[A]

Released: May 2008

Label: Star

|align=center| — |align=center| — |align=center| — |align=left| PHI: Platinum |- |Grown-Up Christmas List EP

Released: November 30, 2010

Label: 143/Reprise

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Singles

;Notes

A ^ Albums were released only in the Philippines.

B ^ Songs were released as commercial singles only in the Philippines.

Album appearances

{|class="wikitable" |- !Year !Song !Album |- |rowspan=4|2006 |"I'll Be There" |Little Big Star |- |"Awit ng Kabutihang Asal" (with Little Big Star Finalists) (Translation: The Song of Good Deeds) |rowspan=3|Little Big Deeds |- |"Handang Tumulong" (Translation: Ready To Help) |- |"Sana" (with Little Big Star Finalists) (Translation: How I Wish) |- |2007 |"Smile" |H.O.P.E. (Healing of Pain and Enlightenment) |- |rowspan=2|2008 |"A Song for Mama" |Love Life (Life Songs & Life Stories of Boy Abunda) |- |"The Bodyguard Medley (I Have Nothing/I Will Always Love You)" |Hit Man: David Foster & Friends |- |rowspan=6|2009 |"And I am Telling You (I'm Not Going)" |OPM Number 1's |- |"It Can Only Get Better" |I Move. I Give. I Love. |- |"Note to God" |NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol 31 |- |"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (David Archuleta feat. Charice) |Christmas from the Heart |- |"The Christmas Song" |A Very Special Christmas Vol.7 |- |"No One" (The Chipettes feat. Charice) | |- |rowspan=5|2010 |"Pyramid" (featuring Iyaz) |Nrj Summer Hits Only 2010 |- |"In This Song" |David Foster Presents Love, Again |- |"Pyramid" (featuring Iyaz) | |- |"Pyramid" (Barry Harris Radio Edit) |Scott Mills Presents Big Ones |- |"Wherever You Are" (Unique featuring Charice) |From Brooklyn To You |}

Music videos

Filmography

References

External links

Official Website by Warner Bros. Records

Official MySpace

Official YouTube Channel

Charice at Billboard.com

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