Charity: a unique ‘mission’ for R&B boy band
from Positive News Media:
INFANTA, Quezon – HIGH school students of Mount Carmel School of Infanta (MCHS) howled, giggled, and sang with today’s newest local R&B band Intensity, whose recent launch in Filipino airwaves started the unique mission for a Pinoy boy band’s founding.
That mission actually started here. “I hand over US$10,000 to MCHS so that your school building that was hit by the typhoons last year be renovated,” said US-based Mila Glodava, founder of Intensity’s local producer Kirsten Music and Entertainment, Corp.
After hearing the glee of the whole MCHS studentry, Glodava, who heads the 10-year-old Filipino-run nonprofit Metro Infanta Foundation (MIF) based in Colorado, USA, added: “I urge you to buy the start-up album of Intensity because 10 percent of all its earnings will go to charity… for Infanta.”
Being “intense” in its music for a worthy cause is Intensity’s mission. The group (in photo, from left-standing, clockwise), made up of Jan Ray Hernandez, Jermhyn “Beige” Brian, Rodel Gerard “Nino” Formanan, and K.C. Sequito, vowed to work hard and bring to Filipino listeners a more soulful rendition of the Pinoy R&B music brand.
Intensity’s CD Lite (distributed through Ivory Music, and co-produced by Events and Artists Management Office) features two original compositions by renowned local composer Vehnee Saturno – “Nasaan ka Man” (the carrier single) and “Kahit Pa Ano”; two other compositions by upstart composer Edwin Marollano – “Please” and “Ayoko Na”; and a revival of the Whitney Houston hit “All at Once.”
Here, Intensity even made Madonna’s “Borderline” – a 1980s dance classic – a possible R&B hit, in acapela.
Intensity’s music is direct and straightforward, the four band members say. The four members humbly add that Intensity is currently feeling its way in the local boy band scene.
But some are hopeful. In a web forum, “Cagalli Rukia” said: “Perhaps you might have not yet known them (Intensity) because the band is not yet a hit. But I think they are unique because among today’s boy bands, where many of them have solo vocalists, here all band members render soulful R&B music.
Band members vowed before Kirsten Music’s Mila Glodava that they will work hard to make their CD Lite a hit. “It is for Infanta that we are doing this, Tita Mila,” the four said.
After their launch here in Infanta, the students came in droves to sign autographs with KC, Beige, Jan Ray and Niño. “I hope that will be an indication of the band’s rise to stardom in the local scene,” Kirsten president Beth Gutierrez said.
“We hope so, too,” said K.C. “All for Infanta.”
