Pinay wins singing contest in Japan, donates cash prize to Yolanda victims

After topping a Japanese television singing competition, a Filipina junior high school student donated Y300,000 (roughly P128,000) from her prize to victims of super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).

 

Fourteen-year-old Analyn Almerino, a junior high school student from Tokushima Prefecture, turned over the amount to the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.

 

The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo said Almerino bested over 6,000 preliminary contestants from all over Japan, on her way to bagging the grand prize in Channel 4 Nippon Television’s “Zennihon Kashou-ryoku Senshu-ken, Kashou-ou” (All Japan Singing Talent Competition – Singing King) last December 9.

 

The embassy said Almerino was brought to Japan by her Filipina mother.

 

It added she began singing since her primary school years.

 

Before Christmas Day, she and her stepfather went to the embassy to turn over the Y300,000 to Philippine Ambassador Manuel Lopez.

 

Yolanda tore through Visayas and Southern Luzon last Nov. 8, leaving more than 6,100 dead in its wake. — RSJ, GMA News