Several GMA personalities and programs were honored at the 11th Star Awards for Music held last Thursday at the SM North Skydome in Quezon City.
Asia’s Pop Diva Julie Anne San Jose won the “Female Pop Artist of the Year- People’s Choice Award” for her single ‘Regrets.’
Asia’s Multimedia Star and ‘The Gift’ lead actor Alden Richards took home the “Pop Album of the Year” for ‘Until I See You Again’ under GMA Music.
Winning the “Male Recording Artist of the Year” was Asia’s Romantic Balladeer Christian Bautista for his song entitled ‘Aking Mahal.’ The ‘All-Out Sundays’ mainstay also received the “Mr. Health and Naturals Collection” special award.
‘The Clash’ season 1 alumnus and Kapuso Soul Balladeer, Garrett Bolden, in turn, bagged the “New Male Recording Artist of the Year” award for his single “Lilipad Na” under GMA Music while Ex Battalion won the “Rap Artist of the Year” award for their song ‘Superhero Mo’ under GMA Music as well.
GMA Artist Center star Edgar Allan Guzman was hailed as the “Male Health and Naturals Collection Star of the Night.”
Meanwhile, Julie Anne also took home two top honors at the recently-concluded 5th Wish Music Awards. She was named ”Wishers’ Choice” and received the “Silver Elite Award” for her popular rendition of the Parokya ni Edgar hit, ‘Your Song.’ As of this writing, her Wish 107.5 Bus Performance of the song has already reached over 31.7 million views on YouTube.
At the first-ever VP Choice Awards of Village Pipol magazine, GMA Network was recognized the “TV Station of the Year”.
Rounding off the list of Kapuso winners were Alden who was one of the night’s biggest winners, winning the “Movie Actor of the Year” for the box-office movie ‘Hello, Love, Goodbye’ and versatile Kapuso actor Ken Chan who won the “TV Actor of the Year” for his exceptional role in the top-rating Afternoon Prime series ‘My Special Tatay.’ Ken and Angela Alarcon both received the “Mr. and Ms. Fitspiration” special awards.