Sarah Geronimo Profile

Name: Sarah Geronimo

Birthday: July 25, 1988

Occupation: Actress / Singer / Host

Status: Single

Biography:

Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo (born July 25, 1988) is a Filipino recording artist and actress. Geronimo started her career appearing in children's variety shows such as Pen-pen de Sarapen, Ang TV and NEXT.

Geronimo started her official debut in show business after having won the Star for a Night singing competition and released her first album Popstar: A Dream Come True in 2003 — the best-selling debut album in OPM history. Following her debut, she recorded six more albums: Sweet Sixteen in 2004, Becoming in 2006, Taking Flight in 2007, Just Me in 2008, Music and Me, Christmas Girl in 2009 and One Heart in 2011. Geronimo has had a series of concerts at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila and several worldwide concert tours, often done in conjunction with a new album or movie appearance.

She appears in television with the musical variety show ASAP. She became the lead actress in the drama Bituing Walang Ningning. She had her film debut in a leading role in A Very Special Love which had a sequel, You Changed My Life, which is the highest-grossing Filipino movie of all time. In 2010, she was nominated as Best Actress in FAMAS awards for her performance in You Changed My Life.

Geronimo in 2009 was the first and only artist to receive three major awards — the Recording Queen award, the Concert Queen award, and the Box Office Queen award — in GMMSF Box Office Entertainment Awards. She is the first Filipino artist to receive a platinum award for a DVD copy of her concert The Other Side in 2005 and is currently the only artist who has a platinum record for 4 DVDs of her concert. Her fourth one was awarded with triple platinum status in December of 2010. Her full album released on the new format Music Album Phone reached platinum status on its first day of release.

In 2010, Geronimo received the Best Female Major Concert for her sold-out Araneta show Record Breaker and the "Entertainer of the Year" award from Aliw Awards Foundation, making her the youngest artist to receive the award. The Philippine Association Of The Record Industry (PARI) recognized Geronimo as the best-selling artist of the decade (2001-2010).