Filipina is U-S Music Awards best Female Artist

I find it exciting to hear and read about the accomplishment of Pilipino heritage and what they have done and being noticed and awarded for their efforts.  I am truly blessed to say that I am proud to be a filipina born to wonderful parents whose heritage goes back to Spaniards, German and Irish roots.  Today we have grown to multitude that its impossible just to have a get together, but we need a huge park or even maybe the Yankee or Wembley stadium to accommodate all of us!  Thanks again goes to Good News Pilipinas for this article!

Acoustic singer Apryle Dalmacio is shining in America’s music industry. She is not only talented but also a big winner after recently bagging two major awards at the 2009 Inland Empire Music Awards.

She took home the Best Country and Female Artist Award at the 5th Annual Inland Empire Music Awards that took place at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside.

According to the music critics “It is her powerful, dynamic, and expressive voice that has successfully brought her this far.”

Apryle is currently working on her Debut Album “On The Other Side” with Indepth Music.

Apryle is a self taught singer/songwriter who has been on stage all her life dreaming that some day her music will inspire and captivate listeners and viewers across the world.

She has had the opportunity to be a guest, and have her music air on radio stations such as KUCR 88.3fm with DJ Tina Bold, IE Coffee Radio KCAA 1050am with Ralph Torres, and Inland Empire’s talk radio KTIE 590am with Coffee General Cliff Young, Cut N Dry Talent Radio with Chris Kalt and has even starred in her own radio show as a DJ for Cal State San Bernardino’s Coyote Radio.

She has performed at the opening celebration of the “Musical Instruments Fall Folk Fest” sponsored by Best Buy at Riverside Plaza, the “Acoustic Rock Fest” sponsored by America’s Automobile Company Fritts Ford, and has had the honor to humbly perform for charity events including The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life!

In 2007, she came home as a third place winner from a “Battle of the Bands” held in one of L.A.’s most famous venues BB Kings Blues Club at Universal City Walk. In 2008 she performed with several awarding female artists from across Southern California in the Female Acoustic Showcase and competed as one of the top 7 finalists for the Upland Lemon Festival Idol.

Apryle has had a wide experience performing and singing all her life. At the tender age of eight, Apryle received her very first guitar handed down from her mother who also played in her youth.

“She has been singing since she was born,” Apryle’s mother says, “Apryle was the loudest baby. You could hear her across the hallway. The surprised nurse asked me if that was my baby crying and I replied ‘yes’. But she was not crying, she was singing.”

It was not until Apryle’s thirteenth birthday when playing the guitar became a passion. Wrapped up in a ribbon was a beautiful vintage acoustic Aspen awaiting her arrival from school. Since then, Apryle has been writing songs and expressing her inner-self through the gift of music.

From elementary school through college, this young musician has been involved in choir and has developed a great amount of intelligence in music. She has passionately been involved in various music groups throughout her life: The multi-award-winning JVHS Chamber Singers in which Apryle co-student directed, Sweet Adeline, the CSUSB Vocal Jazz Show Choir, and world touring CSUSB Chamber Singers. At age seventeen she was one out of 2,000 students chosen to sing in the Southern California Vocal Association Honor Choir and received a music scholarship her senior year of high school.

Now in her early twenties, Apryle continues to share her talents as she and her music progress.