Regine Velasquez
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 Regine Velasquez facts

• Popular for her wide vocal range, she is widely known as "Asia's Songbird"
• Velasquez has been hailed by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) as the Philippines' Best-Selling Artist of All Time, with more than 7 million units sold in the Philippines and another 2 million units sold across Asia
• Velasquez won the Grand Prize at the 1989 Asia Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong
• In 1994, Polygram Records produced her first Asia wide-released album, Listen Without Prejudice
• It is considered as Velasquez' most successful album to date, selling more than 700,000 copies in Asia
• The album has sold over 100,000 units in the Philippines, 300,000 units in China and 20,000 in Thailand
• In 2000, Velasquez's music video "In Love With You", a duet with Jacky Cheung, landed at the #1 spot on MTV Asia's Top 20 Asian Videos
• On the eve of the new millennium, as part of BBC's Millennium Special 2000 Today, Velasquez, together with some 2,000 Filipino youth, sang the Philippine millennium theme, "Written in the Sand"
• This was broadcast by BBC to 67 countries reaching almost a billion viewers
• At age 21, Velasquez was the first Asian solo performing artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York, as part of Carnegie Hall's centennial-year concert series