By Mike Frialde (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 27, 2016 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - Visiting Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan will be serenaded by the world-famous Loboc Children’s Choir during the state dinner in their honor to be held at Malacañang tonight.
At a press conference at the Jin Jiang Inn in Makati yesterday, the 22 choir members expressed their excitement over their performance before the royal couple.
Marjorie Mandin, 14, a veteran choir member and a Grade 9 student at the Holy Trinity Academy in Loay, Bohol, said they will do their best to bring honor to the country.
Marjorie will be joining seven boys and 14 other girls in serenading the Japanese royal couple with a repertoire of Filipino, kundiman, jazz and Broadway songs such as “Light of a Million Mornings,†“Colors of the Wind,†“Nella Fantazia†and “Larong Pinoy.â€
In addition, the choir will also sing “Hotaro Koi†(Ho Firefly) which, according to choir musical director Alma Fernando-Taldo, is a popular children’s song in Japan.
“The previous choir batch have sung this song in 1995. We even visited a Japanese executive in Cebu City and asked him to teach us how to properly sing it with the correct pronunciation,†she said.
According to Taldo, the songs that will be sung by the choir during the state dinner were selected by Malacañang.
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