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Patricia Janine Dusaran Berdin (born January 28, 2002), simply known as Janine Berdin, is a Filipino singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame when she was crowned as the second season grand champion at Tawag ng Tanghalan of the noon-time television show It's Showtime.[1][2][3][4]

Tawag ng Tanghalan Champion Janine Berdin
Berdin in 2019
Born	Patricia Janine Dusaran Berdin (2002-01-28) January 28, 2002 (age 20) Lapu-Lapu, Cebu, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Occupation	Singer songwriter actress
Years active	2011–2013 2018–present
Agent	Star Magic (2011–2013; 2021–present)
Musical career
Genres	Pop pop rock alternative rock
Instrument(s)	Vocals ukulele guitar
Years active	2018–present
Labels	TNT Records Star Music
Musical artist

Regarded as the "Gem of OPM",[5] Berdin has received a recognition from the Philippine Air Force in 2018 and was hailed as the "Promising Female Music Artist" at the World Class Philippines Council 2019.[6] Her 2022 single "Mahika" with Adie reached No. 2 on Billboard Philippines Songs chart.[7][8] Her debut EP "WTF I actually wrote these songs" earned over 1.5 million streams on Spotify Philippines in just 9 days span.[9] As of June 2022, Berdin has already surpassed 10 million all-time Spotify streams.[10]

Prior to that, she joined Star Circle Quest: Search for the Next Kiddie Superstars.[11] She began her career as a child actress, appearing in several ABS-CBN TV series. Janine also appeared in several antagonist roles where she played bully to a protagonist.

Janine is a member of the all-female vocal group New Gen Divas together with Elha Nympha, Sheena Belarmino and Fana.

Career

Star Circle Quest: Search for the Next Kiddie Superstars

First appeared in ABS-CBN. She was discovered by Star Circle Quest: Search for the Next Kiddie Superstars (Season 4). Berdin finished as the 4th female semi-finalist.

After the contest she was endorsed to ABS-CBN's Star Magic to be one of their talents. She also participated in some Star Magic activities including Star Magic Games 2012[12] and the ABS-CBN 2012 Christmas Station ID.[13]

The Voice Kids and Tawag ng Tanghalan

Janine tried to audition at The Voice Kids, but was met with no luck. In 2017, she also tried to audition for Tawag ng Tanghalan sa Showtime Season 1 but was still not accepted. She re-audition during Season 2 and finally received the call to compete for the 4th quarter of TNT Season 2.

Daily Rounds

On January 24, 2018, Janine participated in the Season 2, Quarter IV of Tawag ng Tanghalan on It's Showtime, a singing competition broadcast on ABS-CBN. She was introduced as a Singing Young military trainee and was dubbed as the "Cadets My Girl ng Cebu".[14] On her first performance, she sang her rendition of Magasin by Eraserheads.[15] where she emerged as the daily winner.

Songs Performed by Janine Berdin: Daily rounds (Tawag ng Tanghalan Season 2, Quarter IV)

Performance Date	Song Performed	Original Artist	Score (%)	Result
January 24, 2018	Magasin	Eraserheads	91.4	Won (as daily winner)
	Creep	Radiohead	95.8	Won[14]
January 25, 2018	Sabihin	Zelle	93.6	Won[16]
January 26, 2018	Jar of Hearts	Christina Perri	94.8	Won[17]
January 27, 2018	Somebody That I Used to Know	Gotye	94.4	Won[18]
February 5, 2018	Someone Like You	Adele	96.2	Won[19]
February 6, 2018	Diamonds	Rihanna	92.4	Lost[20]

Season 2, Quarter IV – Semi-finals

On February 5, 2018, Janine defended the golden microphone for 5 consecutive days.[21] Consequently, at the age of 16 years old, she became the 1st semi-finalist of TNT Season 2, Quarter IV, followed by Mark Douglas Dagal, Aljun Alborme, Arabelle Dela Cruz, and Reggie Tortugo, Adelene Rabulan, Arbie Baula, JM Bales and Christian Bahaya. The nine semi-finalist competed during the week-long Semi-finals starting May 12, 2018.[22] Janine performed daily during the rounds and earned standing ovation and much praises from the judges on the Round 4 with her rendition of "Banal Na Aso, Santong Kabayo" by Yano.[23] In the next round, Janine performed an emotional rendition of Narda by Kamikazee which earned another standing ovation and moved one of the judges Ogie Alcasid into tears.[24] On the last day of the Semi-finals, Janine received her 3rd standing ovation and earned the highest combined score of 97.98% and advanced to the TNT Season 2 Grand Finals alongside Reggie Tortugo scoring 60.84%.[25]

Songs Performed by Janine Berdin: Semifinals (Tawag ng Tanghalan Season 2, Quarter IV)

Performance Date	Theme	Song Performed	Original Artist
Round 1 – May 12, 2018	Audition Song	The Edge of Glory[26]	Lady Gaga
Round 2 – May 14, 2018	Awit Para Kay Inay	Tomorrow	Andrea McArdle
Round 3 – May 15, 2018	Musical Influence	Ang Huling El Bimbo	Eraserheads
Round 4 – May 16, 2018	Hurados' Choice	Banal Na Aso, Santong Kabayo	Yano
Round 5 – May 17, 2018	OPM	Narda	Kamikazee
Round 6 – May 18, 2018	Semi-final Song	Skyscraper	Demi Lovato

Season 2, Grand Finals

Twelve TNT Season 2 Grand Finalists were to perform in the week-long competition that took place on May 28–June 2, 2018 held at the Aliw Theater.[27] During the 1st round of the Grand Finals, Janine performed Eraserheads' With A Smile and garnered a combined score of 98.2% eventually becoming part of the Top 6. During the live finale, after performing Bamboo's Tatsulok/Noypi/Hallelujah medley, Janine earned the highest combined score of 96.11% to emerged as the Grand Champion followed by Ato Arman (74.27%) and Steven Paysu (61.80%).[1]

Songs Performed by Janine Berdin: TNT Season 2 Grand Finals

Performance Date	Song Performed	Original Artist	Combined Score (%)
Round 1 - May 28, 2018	With A Smile	Eraserheads	(98.20%) Advanced to the Top 6
Round 2 - May 30, 2018	N/A	N/A	Safe
Round 3 - May 31, 2018	N/A	N/A	Safe
Round 4 - June 1, 2018	N/A	N/A	Safe
Live finale – June 2, 2018	Nosi Ba Lasi	Sampaguita	(N/A) Advanced to the Final 3
	Tatsulok/Noypi/Hallelujah medley	Bamboo	(96.11%) Grand Champion

YouTube videos

Janine's performance during the daily rounds of Season 2, Quarter IV of TNT until the Grand finals were published on ABS-CBN Entertainment's YouTube channel . The videos of these performance were Top Trending for days[28] and went viral on YouTube[29][24] and within a month of publishing, the top 2 videos have reached over 8.7 million views and all the other videos have racked over 1 million views.[30][31] With her popular renditions of Filipino songs, she was nicknamed as the New Gem of OPM.[32]

The livestream video of “Tawag ng Tanghalan” at the day of the Grand finals on June 2, 2018 also made a record of 100,000 concurrent viewers on YouTube.[33][34] As of June 24, 2018, the TNT video performance of Janine had already accumulated over 60 million views (18 videos).

ABS-CBN's TNTVersions YouTube channel [35] opened a new online video blog series entitled TNTVlog featuring Janine as the official Vlog host, the 1st episode was published on June 21, 2018.

In December 2018, Janine's Tawag ng Tanghalan, Season 2 Grand final performance of Bamboo songs medley was named as the 2nd top trending videos that entertained Filipinos in 2018 according to YouTube Rewind. [36] [37]

2018 to present: Post Tawag ng Tanghalan and breakthrough

On July 7, 2018, Janine Berdin signed for a recording contract with the new label TNT Records under Star Music where she performed live for her new carrier single Biyaya written by Chochay Magno.[38][39] The new single was released on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and other music streaming platforms starting July 27, 2018.

Janine was announced to be part of a major concert set to be held on July 28, 2018 at the Araneta Coliseum dubbed as TNT All Star Showdown. She was introduced as one of the headliners with Season 1 Grand Champion Noven Belleza, Finalist Sam Mangubat and the TNT Boys.[40][41][42] After a successful result, the sold-out concert was followed by TNT All Star Showdown - Cebu held at the Hoops Dome, Lapu Lapu City on September 21, 2018.

On September 25, 2018, Janine Berdin was honored to receive the formal invitation to attend the ABS-CBN Ball for the first time.[43] Janine Berdin belted out a performance together with her idols KZ Tandingan and Yeng Constantino during the ABS-CBN Ball.[44]

On September 26, 2018, Janine Berdin was announced to interpret and record Mas Mabuti Pa, composed by Mhonver Lopez & Joanna Concepcion.[45] The song earned Star Music Listeners Choice Award and 4th best song for the Himig Handog 2018 P-Pop Love Songs.[46]

On October 7, 2018, Janine Berdin performed the Opening theme of the drama series Kadenang Ginto during ASAP.[47] The song entitled Nasa Puso is composed by Jeremy Sarmiento.

On December 20, 2018, Janine Berdin announced on Magandang Buhay that she was recently confirmed as an ASAP regular co-host and performer.[48]

In July 2019, Janine Berdin once again interpreted a song, "Sa'yong Mundo", an entry for the top 12 Himig Handog 2019. The song is written by Noel Zuniga Cabalquinto. [49] [50]

In August 2019, Janine Berdin became a member of the girl group J.E.Z. together with Elha Nympha and Zephanie. One of the guesting at GGV mash-up performance of J.E.Z. gained more than 9million streams on YouTube [51] The group took a hiatus in March 2020 until Sheena Belarmino joined the group in January 2021 and Zephanie returned to the group 2 months later. The newly revived group, now branded as New Gen Divas or New Gen Birit Divas, would debut on April 25, 2021, with Janine representing the color red in the said group.

Some time in July 2021, she, along with her co-member Zephanie were unavailable to perform for the New Gen Divas due to prior commitments for the taping cycle that had to be done prior to the reimposition of the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila. They were temporarily replaced by Gigi de Lana and Lara Maigue. She would later return to the group in September 2021, following the group's appearance on Madlang Pi-Poll, a segment of It's Showtime.

Personal life

Illness

By October 2019, the Philippine press reported that Janine took more than a month-long break from performing. She explained that it was early September when she was found to have had "vocal nodules" and was treated with steroids.[52] She was later diagnosed with Cushing's Syndrome, a side effect from her medication.[53]

On November 30, 2019, she returned to perform the opening production on It's Showtime.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Certifications	Label	Type	References
2022	WTF I actually wrote these songs	N/A	Star Music	EP	[54][55]

Singles

Year	Album/Film/Show	Song Title	Label	Written by
2018	Non-album single	Biyaya	TNT Records	Chochay Magno
Himig Handog 2018, 4th best song	Mas Mabuti Pa	Star Music	Joanna Concepcion Mhonver Lopez
2019	Kadenang Ginto original theme song	Nasa Puso	Star Music	Jonathan Manalo
	Himig Handog 2019, Finalist	Sa'yong Mundo	Star Music	Noel Zuniga Cabalquinto
Non-album single	Wala ako n'yan	TNT Records	Janine Berdin
2020	Non-album single, collaboration with Sponge Cola	Gunita	Face Changer Inc.	Reynaldo Dilay
Himig Handog 2020, Finalist	Bulalakaw ft. Joanna Ang	Star Music	Joanna Ang
2021	Live Christ, Share Christ, 500 Years of Christianity	Live Christ, Share Christ with other artists	Jesuit Communications Foundation	Ryan Cayabyab Archbishop Socrates Villegas
	WTF I actually wrote these songs	The Side Character	Star Music	Janine Berdin
Pagod na Ako	Star Music	Janine Berdin
Love Beneath The Stars OST	Dito	Star Music	Jhaye Cura

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Details	Result
2018	Push Awards 2018	Push Music Performance of the Year	”Banal na Aso” (Tawag ng Tanghalan Semi-Finals)	Nominated
2018	LionheartTV RAWR Awards 2018	Favorite Newbie Artist		Nominated
2019	MOR Pinoy Music Awards 2019	Best New Artist of the Year	Janine Berdin for "Mas Mabuti Pa"	Nominated
2019	World Class Philippines Council	World Class Filipino	Most Promising Female Music Artist	Won
2019	Golden Globe Annual Awards	Outstanding Filipino Achievers	(Arts and Entertainment)	Nominated
2020	33rd Awit Awards	Best Song Written for Movie/TV/ Stage	Janine Berdin for "Nasa Puso" from Kadenang Ginto	Nominated, finalist

Concerts

Date	Title	Venue	Country	Description	Reference
April 27, 2021	500th year of Victory at Mactan Concert	Mactan Shrine	Philippines	Guest performer	[56]
November 30, 2018	Listen : The Big Shot Concert	Araneta Coliseum	Philippines	Guest performer for the TNT Boys	[57]
September 28, 2018	Pinoy Hype 2018	Al Nasr Leisureland	United Arab Emirates	with TNT BOYS, BoybandPH	[58]
September 21, 2018	TNT All Star Showdown Cebu	Hoops Dome, Lapu-lapu City	Philippines	with fellow TNT Artists, Directed by Joane Laygo	[59]
July 28, 2018	TNT All Star Showdown	Araneta Coliseum	Philippines	with fellow TNT Artists	[60]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network
2022–present	PIE Borito[61]	Co-host	PIE Channel
2018–present	ASAP Natin 'To	Performer	ABS-CBN
2018	Maalaala Mo Kaya: Mikropono[62]	Herself
	Tawag ng Tanghalan: Season 2, Quarter IV	Grand Champion[1]
	Umagang Kay Ganda	Guest
	Magandang Buhay	Guest
2013	Maalaala Mo Kaya: Ilog[63]	Young Shiela
	Maalaala Mo Kaya: Pasa[64]	Young Maida
2012	Maalaala Mo Kaya: Baunan[65]	Young Norma
	Wansapanataym: Ang suyod ni Ang Suh-yod	Merly
	Wansapanataym: Hannah Panahon	Hannah's Sister (as Janine Bardin)
2011	Maalaala Mo Kaya: Tungkod	Young Bogs
	Mutya	School bully (uncredited)

References

External links

• Janine Berdin at IMDb
• Janine Berdin on Facebook
• Janine Berdin on Instagram
• Janine Berdin on Twitter

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Jhon Clyd Talili	Tawag ng Tanghalan 2017-2018 season 2	Succeeded by Elaine Duran

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