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Joy to the (music) world! - CONVERSATIONS with Ricky F. Lo

The showtime fourth dimension I heard Joy Enriquez sing, I thought she was a Filipina. I thought she was Jocelyn Enriquez, the Filipina at present making noticeable waves in the U.s.a. music scene where she’south mistaken for, quite ironically, a Latina.

The occasion was the cocktails that followed the international printing preview of Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat, at a cozy eating place in Los Angeles old in December, 1999. The evening was capped past the rendition of the movie’s theme song, How Can I Non Love Yous, by "a sensational singing discovery" and she was none other than Joy Enriquez.

Concluding calendar week, more a yr afterwards, I met Joy Enriquez again, this time in Singapore where she launched her debut self-titled album (released locally past BMG Pilipinas Inc., featuring 11 songs crafted by some of pop music’south all-time producers like Babyface, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins, Soulshock & Karlin and Ian Prince) which carries, you guessed it, that now popular song which Joy sings with all middle and soul as if it’s the vocal of her life.

Joy in person is what her name stands for – a lot of joy. She’s bubbly and heady and warm and friendly and charming as most Latin singers are, effervescent and enthusiastic as she answered every question – fifty-fifty the "personal" ones – during this exclusive Chat.

That aforementioned night, Joy gave a sample of her stuff at a disco off Orchard Road for the benefit of the hundred or so amusement impress/TV journalists invited to the album launching. After doing How Tin can I Not Love Y'all, Joy launched into a couple of dance numbers which set in motion that famous "Latin fire." And then high was Joy’due south energy level that, later on at the reception, she danced some more in the crowded space, twirling and turning and twisting, tantalizing in her sexy gyrations, showing everybody that she’s skillful not only to mind to just besides to watch in perpetual Latin motility.

Make way for this new Joy to the (music) earth!

You look very Filipina; your proper name sounds very Filipino, likewise. I could accept mistaken you for a kababayan (compatriot).

(Smiling) "It’due south funny but a lot of people are telling me the same thing. They think I am Filipino. I don’t know simply somewhere down the line, maybe there’s a Filipino in our ancestry. You can encounter it in the eyes of my female parent, too, and in the shape of her face. I should tell y'all that my best friend is a Filipino; her name is Corina Souza, from Manila."

How prissy. How long have you known her?

"Five years. I met her at the mall when I used to work at that place."

Hasn’t Corina invited you to the Philippines, perchance equally part of the promo for your album?

"In fact, she has! She told me, ‘You really have to go to the Philippines!’ At present, I actually want to go. She just came back from a vacation in the Philippines and she was telling me how much she enjoyed information technology and how beautiful the country is, and how much I would savor it, too. I really desire to get, I really want to become back."

Become back?

(Bursts into laughter) "I mean, I actually want to go, non get dorsum because I haven’t really been there. But information technology seems that I’ve been there because of all the stories Corina has been telling me. I’ve go so familiar with the Philippines."

Oh, such as what stories?

"Oh, well-nigh the beautiful beaches; she told me that I could get boating, you know."

By the style, how did you get to sing the theme song of Anna and the Male monarch?

"Babyface produced the vocal and he had asked the producer of the moving-picture show if he could let his creative person – which was me – get ahead and demo it. The producer had some divas lined upward but Babyface insisted, ‘No, I desire my own artist!’ And that was it. And so we went to the studio to demo How Tin I Not Love You and then Babyface took the song personally to the producer and, afterwards listening to it, the producer just loved it! It was a not bad opportunity for me."

Of grade, earlier Anna and The King, you did the vocals for the song When Y'all Believe in Barbra Streisand’s movie Prince of Egypt.

"Yes, it was with Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, Babyface also produced that."

I’m curious... Is at that place a story behind How Can I Not Dearest Yous?

"Yeah. The movie is about two people who can’t be together. When I had the song in my hand and Babyface was teaching me the lyrics and the melody, I actually had this feeling within me that, you know, I’ve been there before, I’ve felt the same feelings before. You lot know, you honey somebody but it’s not gonna piece of work out. The lyrics are but then passionate that I can’t help putting myself in the song. I actually fell into the song so deeply."

What are your favorite lines from the song?

"The first lines..." (Proceeds to sing)... "Cannot impact, cannot feel, cannot be together..." Those are really stiff words, you know. Yous love each other only you cannot touch, you cannot feel and y'all cannot be together."

Unconsummated love.

"Exactly. It’s about unconsummated love."

Could you tell united states of america more than about your album

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"It has a little bit of everything. Expect a picayune fleck of emotional passion when you lot heed to the ballads sung straight from my centre. When I sing them, they put me back into situations I’ve been through, places that I’ve been...family unit...friends...relationships...you know. In that location are besides songs that are excessive. Definitely, I accept that side that says, ‘I don’t want you, I don’t need you lot.’ I have songs similar that. At that place are also songs that make you want to get up and party, get up and milkshake the party."

What’due south the song on the anthology that best describes Joy Enriquez?

"Oh, yes, Just When I Needed Yous. It’southward almost family, it’s about God. I’m very motivated by my family which helped me get where I am today. That song expresses that dear and that character in me."

So you’re family-centered, God-centered.

"Very!"

You’re Catholic?

"Very!"

How much of you lot is Latin and how much is American?

"Hmmmm. American? Maybe 50 percentage because I live in America. I swallow American food and I live in American surroundings because I was born and raised in California. Fifty percent of me is Latin because it’southward in my claret. That 50 percent of me allows me to sing the way I sing. Latin is my roots."

Do you lot categorize yourself equally a "Latin vocalist"? Or simply an artist regardless of nationality?

"But an artist. But the Latin function of me gives me the passion."

Who are your role models?

"One is Gloria Estefan. She’s probably my biggest inspiration. She really is, because where she has come from and how she handled herself in the situations she has been in...wow... she’s merely admirable! She’south a great function model not simply to me and her family but to all young people, Latin and everybody! She’southward a motility, she has a whole Latin movement going on. She helped open doors for other artists, not only Latin artists just all artists."

What type of songs practice you experience most at-home doing?

"Ballads, definitely! When I exercise ballads, I close my eyes and give information technology my all – my centre and my soul. I have the audience for three minutes when I’1000 singing live and y'all tin can hear a needle drop."

Is there one song past any singer which you consider your favorite, nearly memorable?

"Gosh! Any song by Karen Carpenter or by Barbra Streisand. Yes, People."

Why People?

"Because it’s nearly people. You know, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world. The lyrics of the song are just great; they’re very true. The song hits yous in the heart."

Have y'all e'er wanted to be a singer since you were a child? Haven’t y'all dreamed of being somebody else?

"I thought of becoming a psychologist when I was going to school. But always, always, I knew that I would be a singer. I knew that I was going to impact a lot of hearts past singing."

Did y'all realize that you would be a vocalizer for the rest of your life when you won eleven times in Star Search?

"Fifty-fifty before that."

Star Search is where some of today’s young singers accept started, including somebody from the Philippines named Josephine "Banig" Roberto (whatever happened to her?).

"Britney Spears is one of them, and Christina Aguilera."

How did you get into Star Search?

"I auditioned with more than than a m other kids in Glendale, California. I was only virtually 12 and then. The audition was done in a mall. Twelve hundred kids one twenty-four hour period and 1200 kids the next day. Each 1 of the states had thirty seconds to sing a song. I got upward onstage, I sang my song and they didn’t call me for days. I kinda got over that; I went back to school. A couple of years went past. I was singing at a pianoforte bar in Hollywood and a talent sentinel approached me. I was singing at the right identify at the right time. The talent scout told me, ‘I want you to audition for Star Search.’ And so I auditioned. My Dad was with me, my Mom was with me, my sister was with me. The side by side thing I knew I was there on Star Search, singing!"

What songs did y'all sing?

"The first time, I did Celine Dion’s Power of Dear. And the second fourth dimension, a Mariah Carey song."

Could yous tell us more than about your childhood, what sort of family you come from?

"I come up from a niggling town called Whittier in California. It’s a small town; everybody knows everybody. A very community-oriented little boondocks. I was involved in talent shows and plays. One of my nigh memorable experiences was during graduation when I was 5 years old. While everybody was singing with a grouping, I asked to sing solo, I insisted that I sing solo. I come up from a closely-knit family. Wherever I go, my family unit goes with me. My Mom gave 100 pct of herself to supporting me. She’due south the 1 who pushes me, you know, ‘You’ve got to do that; you’ve got to exercise this!’ She’southward a stage mom! (Laughs) She’s the one who constantly reminds me, ‘You’re gifted; God has given you a gift of singing and you lot have to use information technology; you have to make the whole earth aware of it.’ And here I am, using that gift."

What about your family?

"My family has its own business – interior design – and it has been at information technology for 20 years now."

Far from performing arts.

"Yeah, quite far! But in their own way, it seems very shut. My family has their own business, they know how to manage, they know how to coordinate things and how to work with people. My family is very concern-like in that way. They thrive on a small family business concern, hands on. That was the style we children have been raised, through that small business. And so I grew upward having that mentality. And then when I get a deal, I’m very business-similar. My Dad (Randy Enriquez) is with me because he’s my manager, my sister is my trivial manager and my female parent (Elena Reyes) is there for me, too. It’s all in the family."

How many brothers and sisters do you accept?

"I have an older sister, Tiffany, and a younger brother."

Are yous the just one in the family who sings?

"Tiffany sings, too, and she’s been playing the piano since she was five years old. She majored in music in college. My fiddling brother sings and so does my female parent. We all sing together. Nosotros are a singing family. Music is part of the family. Nosotros always go to church where we sing together. Music is an integral function of our family unit."

A religious family.

"We’re with the church building choir. Back home from church, nosotros go along to sing. My sis would play the piano and we would sing together."

Does your being religious help yous in your arts and crafts?

"Information technology does, definitely! I wouldn’t exist here today if non for God. It was God who gave me the souvenir of music and I have to accolade Him everyday with the gift that He gave me. That’s the merely way. He tin can take it away from me anytime He wants to. I take practiced care of my voice and I make good use of information technology because it came from God."

Talking about more than earthly things...What about your lovelife? What about boys?

"No fourth dimension for boys, not right now. No boyfriend. Correct now, my love is my music. I’ve been middle-broken."

So shortly?

"Come up on, I’m xx! I’ve been there, done that, so I know what I’m singing about. I was boy-crazy and I’ve been into relationships. I’m singing from experience."

What sort of boys do you find bonny?

"Right now, I’yard into shy guys. I really am! That’s why I wrote the song Tell Me How Y'all Experience, included in my album."

Are you the ascendant blazon?

"I’k very aggressive; I know what I want. But I’m very protective, as well."

Are you every bit blithesome as your name suggests?

"Oh, yep, I am. Very joyful! If y'all inquire me to draw myself, I would say that I am a happy person, outgoing and very caring. I care a lot about people; I want to make people effectually me happy – and blithesome."

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Source: https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2001/03/04/94183/joy-music-world-conversations-ricky-f-lo

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