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By Ricky T. Gallardo
SHE took a leave to experience the priceless
emotions offered by motherhood. When Barbie Almalbis entered into
wedded bliss and became Mrs. Martin Honasan, she knew that her
career must, from time to time, take a back seat. More so when she
found out that she was going to become a mother.
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“It’s all about accepting and embracing the
different stages in life. We all need to grow, we all need to
mature, we all need to explore other facets of life,” Barbie said
in an interview with The Times while she was pregnant with hers and
Martin’s firstborn.
Now that their daughter is already included in
the updated version of National Statistics Office list of the
country’s population, Almalbis feels that she can come back to the
universe where she is most happy at—making music and singing songs
that entertain people.
“Humming lullabies and performing onstage are
two art forms that require the same levels of commitment and
passion,” she says, her words reflecting her new sense of
maturity.
Barbie Almalbis is a new generation icon in her
own right, with a career that has evolved over time and produced
songs that are unforgettable staples in local music. If anyone has
experienced good fortune married with success and is now at the
point of coming full circle it is the angel voiced singer
songwriter, now that her career is on its 10th year.
She has also served as a role model to the many
women who want to shine in fields dominated by men. In this finicky
landscape of the Philippine music, one woman dared to go along with
her dreams.
It has been a decade since Barbie first picked
up her guitar and sang with The Hungry Young Poets. She wrote the
hit single Firewoman which was the start of the large body of work
she has produced throughout her ten years in music. She paved the
way for women to have a voice and artists to write more original
music. She has proven her songwriting talent time and time again and
is as much a respectable figure to OPM as her music is.
Her personal life parallels this success; she
found God and an inspirational sense of spirituality, got married,
and recently become a mother. She still sings, composes, paints,
plays a mean guitar solo, and attends to her mothering duties. And
she intends to sing more songs, and create more music, lullabies
included. Barbie Almalbis-Honasan has truly come full circle.
For more information on
Barbie’s 10th anniversary show on September 29 , please log on to www.12stonerecords.com
or www.barbiealmalbis.net.
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