[Music] boy and welcome to fast talk with boy AB Facebook welcome to the program [Applause] 2,100 people in the audience Dill we have a very special guest she is beautiful and she is the one and the only Celeste leg hi hello I'm very happy to be here look beautiful thank you thank you please please question okay um I just felt that you know the first time I let my white hair show was uh maybe 3 months da usually that was a first marriage in the family usually the thing you will do is you will retouch
your roots righto I decided this is it this is the next phase of our lives and uh I'm tired of all of this dying and and I know and and I decided to just let it go and it's really very um I feel better about it but we were and we are excited to have you here because we would like to talk to you about many things one of them uh some of them are your songs oh okay okay and I'm going to start with saranga NI Pepe all right qu sangola written of course by
uh gal no the husband the husband an Yan uh it was martial law uh 77 yeah I 72 72 72 I was I was pregnant for the first time in my life and then martial law was declared so you know when you're pregnant the first time you're already scared and martial laa so I I was it was a very difficult time also for us and then my husband wrote lyrics now talking about how he felt about the times that was really lyrics martial law and the times that we were living in okay environmental concerns but
he put everything in uh in a childlike yes uh situation that's why when it was recorded see Eddie mooni was the one who arranged it Eddie Moon Sil lakai he was asking Nono how do I approach this songsri so he asked asked my husband what will I how will I how do that's why the arrangement is like that that's a nice formula simply title uh it was in my first in my second long playing album and uh what we were pushing was another song a song of ernani queno which is also a very beautiful song
but the DJs were so intrigued by the title so they started playing it so that's how it became a hit M sorito was written by Joe Maran we were doing research on your songs he at first it was he had written it to be Mr songwriter saranga Sanga I moved recording company and the recording company wanted another one that's similar to sangola te rectiv you know that is there's a budots version do you know that no no it no it's it's used in all Zumba classes ATA in the entire Metro Manila looking forward to that
now I'm going to go to the Nan queno song that that was a surprise hit for me the that was in the Same album where Sanga ni Pepe Ando where [Laughter] and pepe was already a hit so I said to myself a year later I would go I would be performing for parties or whatever and I'd be requested to do and I'd ask the audience how do you know that song I know it's being played it's being played you pal it became a I didn't even know the beauty of the song the beauty of the
lyrics why it became a hit and this is written and composed by two national artist you've been listening to the new singers today what is your assessment some of them are very very good stale of sb19 is absolutely fabulous yes and Julian uh San Jose is very very good excellent excellent so some of them were very very good uh and are very committed and very committed and very professional T because I just got to work with a lot of young people in a series and everybody was focused and committed and disciplined I was very happy
to see that uh at nly rodes uh let's talk about uh K yeah this was in 1987 my father watched one show of mine and um I I put in the song sabado that was written by my husband and and uh the audience didn't know the the song uh but the audience loveed the song because it's a good song and my father said to me uh marisel is exactly what you said to me marisel why do why are you doing covers what you should do is an original work and then I said Papa you know
the audience they feel more comfortable if they know the but look at Sab he said they like Sab it's they have never heard it before father and uh I I'm a papa's girl I'm sorry papa is National artist for visual arts Cesar legaspi okay so I said original came to us with an idea of of making something about the life of Katy de Cruz and that's when it why don't we make it an original musical an original Musical and that's what I want to do from now on I said I said to myself and and
Mommy Kate I had I when I was new in in the business mommy Kate was one of those who were who was very very very kind to me very welcoming and I'll never forget that she was very kind she was very welcoming syv syia Lor syia L such lovely ladies and they they just made me feel so welcome and so at home yes I know it's so exciting so the young people are becoming aware of Mommy by Julian yes yes yes Ganda oh there's mommy Kate that's right what a lovely lovely woman but I think
uh my my favorite song um but it's not the final song fast okay okay we have 2 minutes to do this and our time begins now now gray hair black hair gray sveto sangola sangola classic Trends classic jog soal jog matarai Marte Matari always beautiful always sexy H always sexy singing or acting Sing Act pelicula and and awardwinning world class good Filipino singer ah still biggest show crash biggest show crash no no no no um Robert aralo song of your life give it a title lights on or lights off lights off happiness or chocolate H
happiness best time for happiness morning oh complete the sentence Celeste mat I'm honest no no no and I was about to ask you that you know in I I think an interview with Soro with k with say fast talk with boy we're back to the show with the one and the only miss celesti legaspi let's let's go to the matar thing okay oh what is it um is that a reputation is that for real it's for real I have to be honest as I told you I'm always honest of course you're it's for real I
I I tend to be Matari yes um honesty it's honesty actually patience uh I'm very very patient okay I'm very patient so it's not impatience it's not it's it's because I have to be honest that's why I'm matar so if you're inefficient oh if you're inefficient around me I will tell you and if you're not doing your best I will tell you all right and then I guess people find that mat celp um you were also brave but you know boy I started in theater I started on stage I was I was in in elementary
and I was doing stage right so actually and I I did Community Theater also I was doing moros and comedias okay so actually I'm very comfortable to Stage happy place no safe place film is different and film is different how different is fil because the camera is just is right here so you cannot you cannot an know you you just have to be you just have to be in the in the moment you just have to if you're supposed to be happy you you have to be happy you don't have you you you cannot be
like happy you have to be happy so there's more truth film and and I learned that from L broa I'm talking about L I think you were part of his last finished film yes how was it working with another National artist for film lenos I know the only time he scolded me was we were doing a at something for television and I had brought only two outfits and he called scolded me you are a theater how come you only have this so I learned I learned my lesson from and the other lesson I learned from
Leno he was he he we were doing a a television role is I'm a singer and I come home and I'm the only one in the I'm the only one in the entire uh set and and and then he would tell me now you know when you turn singer when you turn you turn you turn that's what I learned from L you've done a lot uh t uh as a producer as a singer as an actor as a human being as a mother as a wife you know if you were to share with us your
biggest life lesson an uh I'll have to put it in context CU um uh you know God God has been very kind to me very he has given me a lot of blessings like he gave me my voice and he gave me my talent so I can act but he also gave me my family he gave me my husband who is a wonderful man and and I'm committed to that so that when I started to become popular I I knew that uh I can only be popular up to a certain extent because uh first of
all is my family I'm raising my children I'm I'm my husband is important to me so I always knew and that's my that's my biggest life uh what moment yeah accepting accepting that reality and and the moment that I did that I became so happy yeah that's what I did I accepted it that I will never be a Sharon ketta or a nor onor I will never be that because first is my family I'm not going to go that route maybe maybe and not everybody will understand it or appreciate it I accepted that also so
accepting is very very important that's my life's ano important moment for me thank you thank you thank you oh and the lesson that I'm getting you know what I'm hearing is that Hindi uh Shon kma Santos um and this is not me to flatter you celp accepting that you have your own space recognizing that embracing that [Applause] uh thank you conert my pleasure my the one and the only Celeste Legas thank you very much be kind make you n and tatti proud hash say thank you and do one good thing a day and let's make
this world a better place goodbye for now and God bless [Music]
