Seksing-Seksi Awit Awards Night!

People forgot about the storm for a few hours as the 20th Awit Awards unfolded at the NBC Tent, The Fort last August 8. That night PARI was able to put up an amazing show with acts that became bigger and bigger as the awards night moved along. Opening the show were great bands like Imago, Sugarfree, Sponge Cola, Itchyworms and Sandwich singing one after the other in a medley of APO songs.

This was followd by performances from (hold on to your seats!) Pepe Smith, Wally Gonzalez, Kjwan, The Dawn, Razorback, Bamboo, Sitti singing a medley of Jose Mari Chan and Cecille Azarcon songs with The Company, Christian Bautista with Rachel Anne Go, Parokya Ni Edgar with Gloc 9 and Francis M, Faith Cuneta with Sheryn Regis singing novelty songs, Kamikazee, Gary V singing and dancing with son Gabriel, and finally there was Regine Velasquez & Ogie Acasid singing "Kailangan Kita" and "Narito Ako."

SO many great acts in one night! It was photo-op heaven! :D

The biggest surprise of the night was seeing Wally Gonzalez walk onstage to play with Kjwan! I tried to get a shot of him with the video clip about JUAN DE LA CRUZ band running in the background (in fact napasigaw nga ako kasi some of my JDLC photos were there! hala...), but i also had to stop and watch him play. WOW.

Now what could possibly top that? Well, Wally moved on over to the other stage to play with Razorback!! AND after playing a song together, PEPE SMITH COMES OUT TO JOIN THEM. WOWOWOW. Then the two rock icons perform HIMIG NATIN--oh my, what a sight! :) Finally I get to see them perform it live together. They played it in their 2005 reunion concert before but they did that reggae version which i do not like and they were with a bunch of other artists. Here it was just the two of them and ANG GANDA po.

PHOTO-OP HEAVEN. Every photographer in the house that night must have gone home with big smiles on their faces haha.

It turns out that Wally and Pepe were there to receive the "Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award" for the Juan De La Cruz band. Mike Hanopol was having a tour abroad so hi brother received the award for him.

Back to the other awards, KAMIKAZEE run off with 5 major awards including the top plums ALBUM OF THE YEAR ("Maharot") and SONG OF THE YEAR ("Narda"). They also won for Best Rock ("Narda"), Best Perfomance by a Group Artist ("Narda"), and Music Video of the Year ("Martyr Nyebera"). Seksing-seksi talaga sila that night! Too bad they weren't around anymore during the latter part of the show (they must have rushed off to a gig somewhere) to receive the ALBUM & SONG OF THE YEAR awards themselves.

SITTI tied with Amber for the Best Performance by a New Female Recording Artist award. =)

KITCHIE NADAL had only one nomination--AND WON, for Best Song Written for Movie/TV/Stage Play for "Majika." :D

For a complete list of winners please visit the Awit Awards website. Watch the the 20th Awit Awards on TV on August 19, Sunday, at 10 PM on ABC 5!

PHOTOS at the AWIT site and here. :)