Kapuso Showbiz News: Josh Groban lauds Filipino artists, the PH's love for music

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Tony, EMMY, and five-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, and philanthropist Josh Groban is one of the many artists who embrace the talent of the Filipinos when it comes to music. He even has a special connection with Filipino singers Lea Salonga and Christian Bautista, and wishes to collaborate with Julie Anne San Jose. Learn more about that and more in this episode of Kapuso Showbiz News.

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00:00you have such incredible artists as well in the philippines that are so inspiring some incredible

00:05singers in the philippines i've i actually have not ever met somebody from the philippines that

00:10didn't at least a little bit have an amazing voice every time i visit i try to learn more

00:16about the music and there are always great singers that inspire me from there

00:20it's something that i am very very enthusiastically excited for um i love the philippines i have since

00:33day one i say it all the time but filipinos have understood me and my music for the entirety of

00:42my career from from moment one i have felt like the philippines have embraced me and that was

00:49something as an artist you know starting out very young and feeling like i didn't really fit in

00:55all of the regular boxes to know that this place so far across the world from where you live

01:01um is singing your songs and wants you there and really wants to sing along with you

01:07um i can't tell you how much that has meant to me over the course of my career so every time i

01:12have the opportunity to come back to the philippines i try to leave all of that gratitude

01:17um and love on the stage that um that we've shared for 25 years you have such incredible

01:24artists as well in the philippines that are so inspiring some incredible singers in the philippines

01:30i've i actually have not ever met somebody from the philippines that didn't at least a little bit have

01:35an amazing voice so um it is a country of great music of great culture and great singers and just incredible

01:42music lovers the the heart is real and i think every artist that goes there feels that um that

01:49genuine connection because that's all we're trying to do is connect well i mean there are some incredible

01:54filipino artists that i've known and worked with here in the united states and also last year in

01:59vanilla i had the great fortune of singing with leah salonga who's been one of my heroes for a really

02:03long time she joined me on stage last last time i was on stage there that was a great thrill

02:08um you know i um it's i have a long-running kind of um connection and joke with christian bautista

02:16who um who i know like always jokes that he was called like the filipino me for for so many years

02:21and he's an incredible artist and he has a wonderful voice and i feel like at some point christian and i

02:26need to we need to collaborate on something and then there are some wonderful new artists like julianne san

02:32jose who's uh incredible singer and i would love to meet her and sing with her at some point so

02:37every time i visit i try to learn more about the music and there are always great singers that

02:43inspire me from there so i i hope so

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