Lani Misalucha comes from
a musical family; her mother is an opera singer, her older sister is a band
 vocalist
and another sister plays the violin. Lani began singing professionally in
the mid-1980s. Early in her career she was a band vocalist and also sang
on commercials and on multiplex albums. Nearly a decade would pass before
Lani decided to embark on a solo career. In the ten years since that
all-important decision, Lani's powerful vocal abilities have enabled her
to climb slowly but steadily to the top rung in her chosen profession, and
earned her the title "Asia's Nightingale."
 The year 1999
can be looked back on as a turning point in Lani's career. In that year she
won the Metropop Song Festival Grand Prize with her rendition of Dodgie Simon's
"Can't Stop Lovin' You." She also received accolades for her starring role
in the play "Rama at Sita." And she decided to put well-known talent agent
Ronnie Henares in charge of her career. In the years since, Lani has really
came into her own as a live performer. She has also had success as a recording
artist; to name just two of her albums, "All Heart" went gold the week after
its release, and "Tunay na Mahal" spawned the popular single of the same
name. But Lani remains first and foremost a concert performer. A "belter"
who leaves audiences spellbound with her incredible range and sheer vocal
power, she has over the past five years finally achieved the stardom she
deserves, with a series of very successful shows at home and abroad. Her
concerts feature many different genres of music including OPM, Broadway and
jazz. She also has a great talent for imitating other singers and often will
entertain the crowd with her mimicking of Sharon Cuneta, Regine Velasquez
and others.
 Lani has had many great concerts,
too many to list here but perhaps her greatest career achievement came in
her September 2001 concert at the Araneta Coliseum. All 18,000 seats were
sold out, a feat previously accomplished by only a handful of local performers.
Some critics had raised their eyebrows when it was announced that Lani
would be performing in such a big venue, and Lani herself was a bit worried.
When the show proved to be a sellout, Lani asked that the lights be turned
on so she could see everybody, all the way up to the rafters! Her international
career was also taking off. Later that year, she had successful shows with
Martin Nievera in L.A., San Francisco and Atlantic City. In August 2002 her
concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium was so well-received by the audience
and critics alike that the show's producers signed Lani up for a multi-city
US tour the following year.She sold out the Araneta for a second time in
2003.
Lani has also been
a mainstay on Philippine TV, as a regular on SOP and as co-host
of her own program, "Celebrity Turns," with Michael V.
Despite her many professional
successes, Lani's career is not the most important part of her life; her
family comes first. She and her husband, former PLDT exec Noli Misalucha,
have two daughters and plan to have more children in the future. Noli is
a pastor in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons),
of which Lani is also an active member. The family recently took the big
step of relocating to the US, and now lives in Las Vegas, NV. Luckily for
her fans, Lani has no plans to abandon her singing career; in fact she has
just scored a "first": she is the first Filipino artist to headline a six-month
stint in Las vegas. She will appear at Bally's with the Society of Seven
six days a week from Aug. 7, 2004 until Feb. 5, 2005. Click
here
for more about this show.
Lani Misalucha's official
website at
http://lani.eradioportal.com/
is currently being updated but you can learn a lot more about Lani in her
profile at
http://lani.eradioportal.com/profile.htm.
Previous Caroustars: JULY
2004:
ANDREW
E • JUNE 2004:
LEA
SALONGA • MAY 2004:
JOEY
ALBERT • APRIL 2004:
VINA
MORALES • MARCH 2004:
RICA PERALEJO
• FEBRUARY 2004:
RACHEL
ALEJANDRO • JANUARY 2004:
GENEVA
CRUZ
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