KZ Tandingan is no stranger to talent competitions: She herself is a product of one and even went on to enter a few more, both here and abroad, as a professional singer.
But ABS-CBN’s “Himig Handog” songwriting contest will always have a special place in her heart. Though it was “The X Factor Philippines” that introduced KZ to the local music industry in 2012, it was “Himig” that ultimately convinced her to stay.
“I thought it was over for me in this business sometime in 2013. Nothing was happening with my career. I was ready to uproot my life here in Manila and return to my hometown in Mindanao,” she related in a recent Zoom press conference. “And then, in 2014, I wa…
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