SP cites Ilonggo Grammy awardee

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Thursday, April 6, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution recognizing Jhett D. Tolentino, an Ilonggo Grammy and Tony Award winner, in the field of theater music and arts.

“Jhett D. Tolentino has brought honor and prestige to Iloilo City,” read part of the resolution sponsored by Councilor Joshua Alim.

The resolution was approved during yesterday’s regular session of the city council.

“It is proper and in order to recognize Jhett D. Tolentino’s achievement and may qualify him to the list of outstanding Ilonggos,” the resolution further read.

Tolentino, who hails from Barangay Calumpang, Molo district, took home the Grammy’s Best Musical Theater Album award for The Color Purple on Feb. 12, 2017 in Staples Center, Los Angeles, California.

Tolentino’s team was composed of Danielle Brooks, Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson as principal soloists; Stephen Bray, Van Dean, Frank Filipetti, Roy Furman, and Scott Sanders as producers; and Bray, Brenda Russell and Allee Willis as composers or lyricists.

The Color Purple, a stage musical, was revived in December 2015. It was based on Alice Walker’s novel about African-American women living in Georgia in the 1930s.

Directed by John Doyle, it also won the 2016 Tony for musical revival.

In 2013, Tolentino bagged his first Tony Award for producing the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike that won Best Play.

The Tony is the highest honor for live theater, equal to the Oscar for movies, Grammy for music and Emmy for television.

Tolentino also won two Tony awards for A Raisin in the Sun (Best Revival of a Play) which starred Denzel Washington, and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Best Musical).

He was likewise cited as an Outstanding Filipino-American (TOFA-NY) in New York, USA for Entertainment in 2014, and became one of the Outstanding Young Men Award (TOYM) for 2016 in the Philippines.

In a previous interview, Tolentino told Panay News he hoped to give more opportunities to young theater talents especially in Iloilo City.

Tolentino finished his Accountancy degree at the University of Iloilo. He then moved to the United States to pursue his passion for theater./PN

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