Of course I didn’t say no when I got invited by a friend to
watch the Diana King and All 4 One concert, held last Oct 28, 2015 at the
Newport Performing Arts Theater of Resort World at Pasay City. These two are
one my many icons of 90’s that I really wish to see on stage.
Diana open the show, you will feel the mood of her beat and
all out belting that reflect how excited she is, Diana is not new to Manila,
she’s here 5 years ago, she’s turning 45 now and she’s still the Diana King we
saw on those old videos, still can make you dance to your feet through her
reggae fusion music.
On her spiels, Diana shared a lot of stories to the almost
full audience on a Wednesday night, one of it is the song “Treat Her Like a
Lady” that she allowed Celine Dion to revive it, she declare that she love
Celine and appreciate it her version, while the song “Love yourself” according
to King is written for her sister, that later on it became personal to her to
the point that she did ask herself that she need to love her own as well. She
also sung some soundtrack favorites such as I Say a Little Prayer, and Make My
Body Hot from the 1998 film How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
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| Dinak King, Then and Now. |
Diana in almost half of her show didn’t take off her hoodie
to think she’s all in sweat, but down to her last two songs she reveal that
she’s now with a new hair style, and then she remove her hoodie to show her new
skin headed look. After Manila Diana said she is moving to India for another
show.
Diana all in all did some 12 songs and really make the crown
dance to her hits such as Shy Guy which she did two versions, the original and
a remix one. Before bidding goodbye Diana thank President Benigno Aquino, who
she said that is watching somewhere in the audience, she admit that she is a
fan of Pres.Aquino and so happy to be able to meet him personally.
Unfortunately we didn’t saw Pres.Aquino in the audience as
we search the whole theater, maybe he is in disguise or probably in a private
area somewhere inside the theater.
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| All 4 One, all together up to now. |
After a 15 minutes break, All 4 One open their set with I
Can Love You Like That, their second memorable hit, and they greeted the audience
by saying hello we are from Los Angeles, this American R&B group is made of
four members namely Jamie Jones, Delious Kennedy, Alfred Nevarez and Tony
Borowiak.
On theirs spiels, the group said that they are still the
original All 4 One we know way back 1993,
22 years ago, all original members, and they just released an album
entitle “Twenty” this year containing all new songs including Chariot, their
newest single. The blending, and harmony of their voice still doesn’t change
after all, especially when they did their original “I Turn To You”, that makes
most of the audience including me almost teary eyed, they maybe gain weight or
looks daddy now, but the talent is still there.
They also sung an old classic song “So In Love”, that
according to All 4 One is the main reason who they are now, that’s the first
song they sung as a group and was noticed right away and ink a recording
contract in the States.
The Christmas in October part is my favorite, wherein they
sung Christmas medley all in acapella, that part is such a goose bumps for all
hearing all their voices in unison, majority can help giving them applause
after that, so lucky to witness that part perform by All 4 One.
In the Finale they also say thank you to Pres.Aquino, and in
closing they perform their major hit, the I Swear wherein they sing and
interpret it by doing sign language each in every lyrics of the song. They
declare that Filipinos to them are the best, especially their back up band from
Manila, the Pure Sound band whom they commission to accompany them that night
and were able to pass their standard.
The All 4 One and Diana King Live In Manila is brought to
you by Resort World in cooperation with Red Stone Productions.
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