Christian, Erik lend star power to Sharon Cuneta’s new reality show
STAR CIRCUIT By Ricky L. Calderon
(The Freeman)
September 01, 2010

Former singing contestants Christian Bautista and Erik Santos will soon be joined with Megastar Sharon Cuneta in a weekly nationwide female singing contest search called “STAR POWER: Sharon’s Search for the next Female Pop Superstar.”

Christian said, “I hope to contribute fun and excitement to this new singing contest. Though I didn’t win before, through hard work and faith I was able to reach my dreams. I want to be able to share those valuable experiences to the contestants too.”

Erik, for his part, shared, ” I hope to inspire the contestants and show them not only does it take talent, but lots of patience, hard work and humility, to make it in this business.”

Christian and Erik traveled to Cebu from August 19 to 21to shoot footages for the preliminary auditions. Hundreds of female contestant wannabes lined up in ABS-CBN’s Studio (Cebu) for the chance to audition before the searching panel of judges, Executive Producer Crissy Baluyut, ABS-CBN Regional Network Executive Roland Padriga and Christian,

Singer/Talent Manager Carlo Orosa. Last weekend, the search continued on to Davao to screen more hopefuls from the Mindanao area.

In Cebu, many female contestants shared on-camera interesting personal stories about their lives, their struggles and triumphs while going through the process of auditions.

Christian and Erik were products of the famous 2003 reality search singing contest “Star In A Million” that launched their successful singing careers.

“STAR POWER: Sharon’s Search for the next Female Pop Superstar” is scheduled to air this October