Stardom wasn’t served on a silver platter to Asia’s Timeless Diva Dulce.
It was a bumpy road Dulce traveled literally and figuratively from Cebu City to where she is now.
“I was twelve years old when I egged on my mom I would go to Manila to be a singer. I applied in ‘Tawag ng Tanghalan’ as a contestant but I was rejected because I was still a minor,” recalled Dulce in the online show, “Boy V’s Corner” in OpinYon Facebook Live last Wednesday at 11 am (Philippine time).
“It was Manang (a term of endearment to an elder woman by blood or affinity) Etta Velonzo (the pioneer inventor of whitening powder and cream long before Dr. Vicki Belo, Pie and Manny Calayan etc. introduced the beauty product) who tagged me to Manila. Initially I stayed with her sister in Banawe but later I moved in to her house in Elvinda Village in San Pedro, Laguna.
“In San Pedro, I applied as a singer in Magic Touch Supper Club, not super club, for a little earning and a feed,” she recounted.
And the rest as we say, is history.