Place of Birth: Netherlands
College: USLS
Course: Mass Communications
- Father is Dutch, mother is Filipino
- First sang in public at the age of four
- Finished an abridged course in Administration
- She sand in a band named Azul
- a local ABS-CBN talent coordinator spotted her in a mall and offered her a co-hosting job on its Saturday lunch time show which is being shown in Western Visayas
- She has a duet with Jose Mari Chan in the song "Here and Now" from his "A Heart's Journey" album- She is part of FHM's 100 sexiest women and Metro Magazine's 10 most beautiful
Born and raised in The Netherlands to a Dutch father and a Filipina mother, Aliya first sang in public at the age of four. She would since regularly sing in various school presentations and Filipino community affairs. In school her main sports were tennis and soccer although she never said no to any indoor game or other outdoor sports.
She finished an abridged course in Administration. At seventeen, Aliya was Holland's representative to the 1997 Euro-Santa Cruzan celebration held that year in London. She and 13 other European country representatives were presented in a gala evening affair before gracing the next day's grand procession in the main streets of London.
But it is Aliya's love for music and singing which gradually became her focus. As a child she took six years of basic piano and jazz ballet lessons. Once a week during college she would go to a neighboring town by bike to take informal voice lessons from a professional musician and jingles composer who was also the guitarist of a well-known Dutch lady singer. In the small recording studio at the back of his house Aliya would often observe and tinker along. Occasionally she also did on-cam assisting jobs for a Dutch variety tv show. When her parents decided to put up business in the Philippines, it took a mean amount of convincing for her to come along. She finally agreed on a promise to allow her to go back to Holland after two years if she still wanted to.
In late 1998 they finally came to settle in Bacolod City. Aliya decided to take another course and enrolled in USLS (La Salle)-Bacolod taking up MassCom. But the weather, dialect and methods of teaching were such that she experienced culture shock. Her parents agreed that she should discontinue schooling while she acclimatized. She did regret having to give up playing for the women's varsity soccer team. She helped her parents in the business while trying to learn the dialect.
Aliya has proven to be more than just a pretty face. Her career in Manila launched in the year 2000, alternating in different bands 'till 2003. In 2001, during one of her gigs she was discovered by a modeling agent and her modeling career took off. She did over a dozen t.v. commercials even more print ads in Asia. Some of her endorsements included companies like MANELS, TOKYO FASHION and currently NATASHA.
But even with her hands full, Aliya wanted more. She started hosting corporate shows and events on the side, which landed another t.v. stint. She hosted "PLANTET X", an extreme sports show and she became the first main host for "FASHION TV PHILIPPINES"
Still, she could not neglect her love for music, so when an offer came to revive the old hit song "HERE AND NOW", a composition by Filipino "living legend" JOSE MARI CHAN there was no way she could refuse this opportunity. They recorded the song, this time as a duet and with this song she appeared in her first first music video.
On the side Aliya sang lots of jingles for t.v. and radio ads because she saw this as a great opportunity to learn the ropes and gain experience in recording. With the help of composer ALLAN FELICIANO from Hit productions, her voice was now anonymously all over t.v. and radio ads. He started pushing her to write her own songs and as Aliya loves to take a challenge, she gave it a try.
Shortly after she was asked by BOOM DAYUPAY to compose a song for the sound track of the movie, "CRYING LADIES", winner of the Manila Film festival. She got to work and finished her first original composition entitled "INNER STRENGTH (KEEP THE FAITH)" in which she wrote everything from music, lyrics, melody and all arrangements.
During one of the radio promotions for this album, she was a guest with ARTSTRONG on WAVE 89.1. On this particular day the minus one was not available, so ALIYA and ARTSTRONG had to figure out how to sing 30 minutes with just his guitar. They didn't know eachothers songs, so they were put up to the real challenge and be creative. ARTSTRONG played some random chords and ALIYA found her way through with lyrics and a melody and together they created their own rendition of songs including a version of "DON'T KNOW WHY" live on air without any rehearsal! The feedback for this track was so impressive that it was released untouched on the album "JAM & JIVE".
That immediately brought them the great idea for a radio show, offered by station manager JOE 'D MANGO. The show "TWISTED" was born only minutes after their promo spot, the show where they twisted songs by changing chords, ad libbing and freestyling, singing lyrics of one song to the music of other songs, on the spot by request.
THOR joined the duo, but unfortunately time and distance was not on their side. Shortly after, sadly their favorite stint came to an end.
Never the less, during all the time spent back at the studio it was inevitable for the next song to be recorded when ALLAN presented an old song he wrote, but wasn't quite sure how to polish. ALIYA then started "ad libbing" a new melody on his track. "STOP THINK" was created and simultaniously recorded on the spot. Aliya not being fully aware, ALLAN submitted the song to composers contest "HIMIG HANDOG" on ABS-CBN in 2003. She realized what had just happened when she received the phone call. To their surprise, "STOP THINK" had made it as one of the 10 final songs and then became a huge radio hit.
Immediately "STAR RECORDS" picked that up and they signed ALIYA up in 2004, for one year. They released the album "SINGLES", including fellow female vocalists Karel Marquez, Maoui David and Marinel Santos. "SINGLES" included the carrier single "I CLOSE MY EYES" with a very controversial music video, directed by CONNIE MACATUNO, starring super celebrity "JERICHO ROSALES".
"I CLOSE MY EYES" is ALIYA'S tribute song to JOSE MARI CHAN which ALIYA once again composed herself.
Also on the album is the re-release of "STOP THINK", the theme song for the t.v. series "SEASONS OF LOVE" and the much requested revival of the song "FOR ALL OF MY LIFE".
By this time her duet "THE ANSWER" wich she performed and co-wrote with Filipino rapper "KRAZYKYLE", was finally released. Months after they actually finished recording it.
In 2005 composer/producer/singer KEITH MARTIN (best known for "BECAUSE OF YOU" and "NEVER FIND SOMEONE LIKE YOU") was interested in collaborating with ALIYA for "KYLA'S" album "NO ORDINARY GIRL". They composed the song "WHEN I'M WITH YOU".
The two got together again to compose the heart tearing ballad "THE HURT I'D GO THROUGH", released on KYLA'S latest album "BEAUTIFUL DAYS".
ALIYA also found some time to write and record the cute "kilig scene" song, "FOREVERTIME" together with ARTSTRONG, OST "ETERNITY". A movie by MARK REYES under Regal Films starring Iza Calzado, Ding Dong Dantes, Mark Herras and Jennelyn Mercado.
ALIYA has also been voted by MEGA magazine in 2003 as one of Manila's 10 most beautiful.
She's been voted FHM's 100 sexiest in the world for 3 consecutive years.
And were you lucky enough to catch her at the final table of the very first (RAY BAN CELEBRITY) POKER TOURNAMENT in the Philippines? This grand poker debut was televised over a dozen times. Aliya represented all the women, as she was the only female to make it to the finals.
Meeting DOYLE BRUNSON in the flesh and being able to interview him during his own tournament visit along side JACK BINION and a few of the other most respected, notorious players in the entire world may have been one of the highlights of her poker experience so far.
And who wouldn't want to be in her shoes as she hosted the first official WPT (WORLD POKER TOUR) Philippines, marking it's debut in the entire Philippine poker history!
Currently she is working on a solo album whenever she's not too busy doing gigs, corporate shows, pictorials, charity work or making hand-made photo frames, post cards and paintings (now being sold exclusively at PEPPERED CHERRY in SERENDRA Makati).
College: USLS
Course: Mass Communications
- Father is Dutch, mother is Filipino
- First sang in public at the age of four
- Finished an abridged course in Administration
- She sand in a band named Azul
- a local ABS-CBN talent coordinator spotted her in a mall and offered her a co-hosting job on its Saturday lunch time show which is being shown in Western Visayas
- She has a duet with Jose Mari Chan in the song "Here and Now" from his "A Heart's Journey" album- She is part of FHM's 100 sexiest women and Metro Magazine's 10 most beautiful
Born and raised in The Netherlands to a Dutch father and a Filipina mother, Aliya first sang in public at the age of four. She would since regularly sing in various school presentations and Filipino community affairs. In school her main sports were tennis and soccer although she never said no to any indoor game or other outdoor sports.
She finished an abridged course in Administration. At seventeen, Aliya was Holland's representative to the 1997 Euro-Santa Cruzan celebration held that year in London. She and 13 other European country representatives were presented in a gala evening affair before gracing the next day's grand procession in the main streets of London.
But it is Aliya's love for music and singing which gradually became her focus. As a child she took six years of basic piano and jazz ballet lessons. Once a week during college she would go to a neighboring town by bike to take informal voice lessons from a professional musician and jingles composer who was also the guitarist of a well-known Dutch lady singer. In the small recording studio at the back of his house Aliya would often observe and tinker along. Occasionally she also did on-cam assisting jobs for a Dutch variety tv show. When her parents decided to put up business in the Philippines, it took a mean amount of convincing for her to come along. She finally agreed on a promise to allow her to go back to Holland after two years if she still wanted to.
In late 1998 they finally came to settle in Bacolod City. Aliya decided to take another course and enrolled in USLS (La Salle)-Bacolod taking up MassCom. But the weather, dialect and methods of teaching were such that she experienced culture shock. Her parents agreed that she should discontinue schooling while she acclimatized. She did regret having to give up playing for the women's varsity soccer team. She helped her parents in the business while trying to learn the dialect.
Aliya has proven to be more than just a pretty face. Her career in Manila launched in the year 2000, alternating in different bands 'till 2003. In 2001, during one of her gigs she was discovered by a modeling agent and her modeling career took off. She did over a dozen t.v. commercials even more print ads in Asia. Some of her endorsements included companies like MANELS, TOKYO FASHION and currently NATASHA.
But even with her hands full, Aliya wanted more. She started hosting corporate shows and events on the side, which landed another t.v. stint. She hosted "PLANTET X", an extreme sports show and she became the first main host for "FASHION TV PHILIPPINES"
Still, she could not neglect her love for music, so when an offer came to revive the old hit song "HERE AND NOW", a composition by Filipino "living legend" JOSE MARI CHAN there was no way she could refuse this opportunity. They recorded the song, this time as a duet and with this song she appeared in her first first music video.
On the side Aliya sang lots of jingles for t.v. and radio ads because she saw this as a great opportunity to learn the ropes and gain experience in recording. With the help of composer ALLAN FELICIANO from Hit productions, her voice was now anonymously all over t.v. and radio ads. He started pushing her to write her own songs and as Aliya loves to take a challenge, she gave it a try.
Shortly after she was asked by BOOM DAYUPAY to compose a song for the sound track of the movie, "CRYING LADIES", winner of the Manila Film festival. She got to work and finished her first original composition entitled "INNER STRENGTH (KEEP THE FAITH)" in which she wrote everything from music, lyrics, melody and all arrangements.
During one of the radio promotions for this album, she was a guest with ARTSTRONG on WAVE 89.1. On this particular day the minus one was not available, so ALIYA and ARTSTRONG had to figure out how to sing 30 minutes with just his guitar. They didn't know eachothers songs, so they were put up to the real challenge and be creative. ARTSTRONG played some random chords and ALIYA found her way through with lyrics and a melody and together they created their own rendition of songs including a version of "DON'T KNOW WHY" live on air without any rehearsal! The feedback for this track was so impressive that it was released untouched on the album "JAM & JIVE".
That immediately brought them the great idea for a radio show, offered by station manager JOE 'D MANGO. The show "TWISTED" was born only minutes after their promo spot, the show where they twisted songs by changing chords, ad libbing and freestyling, singing lyrics of one song to the music of other songs, on the spot by request.
THOR joined the duo, but unfortunately time and distance was not on their side. Shortly after, sadly their favorite stint came to an end.
Never the less, during all the time spent back at the studio it was inevitable for the next song to be recorded when ALLAN presented an old song he wrote, but wasn't quite sure how to polish. ALIYA then started "ad libbing" a new melody on his track. "STOP THINK" was created and simultaniously recorded on the spot. Aliya not being fully aware, ALLAN submitted the song to composers contest "HIMIG HANDOG" on ABS-CBN in 2003. She realized what had just happened when she received the phone call. To their surprise, "STOP THINK" had made it as one of the 10 final songs and then became a huge radio hit.
Immediately "STAR RECORDS" picked that up and they signed ALIYA up in 2004, for one year. They released the album "SINGLES", including fellow female vocalists Karel Marquez, Maoui David and Marinel Santos. "SINGLES" included the carrier single "I CLOSE MY EYES" with a very controversial music video, directed by CONNIE MACATUNO, starring super celebrity "JERICHO ROSALES".
"I CLOSE MY EYES" is ALIYA'S tribute song to JOSE MARI CHAN which ALIYA once again composed herself.
Also on the album is the re-release of "STOP THINK", the theme song for the t.v. series "SEASONS OF LOVE" and the much requested revival of the song "FOR ALL OF MY LIFE".
By this time her duet "THE ANSWER" wich she performed and co-wrote with Filipino rapper "KRAZYKYLE", was finally released. Months after they actually finished recording it.
In 2005 composer/producer/singer KEITH MARTIN (best known for "BECAUSE OF YOU" and "NEVER FIND SOMEONE LIKE YOU") was interested in collaborating with ALIYA for "KYLA'S" album "NO ORDINARY GIRL". They composed the song "WHEN I'M WITH YOU".
The two got together again to compose the heart tearing ballad "THE HURT I'D GO THROUGH", released on KYLA'S latest album "BEAUTIFUL DAYS".
ALIYA also found some time to write and record the cute "kilig scene" song, "FOREVERTIME" together with ARTSTRONG, OST "ETERNITY". A movie by MARK REYES under Regal Films starring Iza Calzado, Ding Dong Dantes, Mark Herras and Jennelyn Mercado.
ALIYA has also been voted by MEGA magazine in 2003 as one of Manila's 10 most beautiful.
She's been voted FHM's 100 sexiest in the world for 3 consecutive years.
And were you lucky enough to catch her at the final table of the very first (RAY BAN CELEBRITY) POKER TOURNAMENT in the Philippines? This grand poker debut was televised over a dozen times. Aliya represented all the women, as she was the only female to make it to the finals.
Meeting DOYLE BRUNSON in the flesh and being able to interview him during his own tournament visit along side JACK BINION and a few of the other most respected, notorious players in the entire world may have been one of the highlights of her poker experience so far.
And who wouldn't want to be in her shoes as she hosted the first official WPT (WORLD POKER TOUR) Philippines, marking it's debut in the entire Philippine poker history!
Currently she is working on a solo album whenever she's not too busy doing gigs, corporate shows, pictorials, charity work or making hand-made photo frames, post cards and paintings (now being sold exclusively at PEPPERED CHERRY in SERENDRA Makati).
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