BACK HOME, WITH KIEL ALO (a review to his concert "Back Home" at Music Box last December 18)....

kiel with his dad jasper boston, co-singer carlo mendoza and ms. maine nadaya

kiel with manager jobert

a press item on kiel's BACK HOME concert

It was definitely the most beautiful concert that I had seen in the year 2020. Although the venue was just a simple sing-along bar (but we've seen other more concerts in Solaire, Resorts World, New Frontier theater, and others) named Music Box, it wasn't the venue, indeed, but the very soul of the concert, the rhythm the flowed along, and the male lead singer that simply lingered-on in our minds.

"This concert you directed, Jobert, is the most beautiful one I had seen", we whispered to Mr. Jobert Sucaldito, the one who directed this Back Home concert of Aliw Awardee Marc Kiel Alo. "And Kiel is so so good. I won't ever forget this concert."

Via the concert Back Home, we now realized that a good concert is undeniably a good one even if it is staged in a lesser venue. It doesn't really matter. What matters is the good repertoire of songs (kudos to Mr. Butch Miraflor, the Musical Director of this concert) and the singers of songs who all participated in this concert- and most of all- Mr. Marc Kiel Alo, the one who holds this great concert.

Kiel was effortlessly good, suave, soulful and charming as he delivered the songs. After having a good training in the Theater world (thanks to director Frannie Zamora, the one who trained Kiel in good posture while singing songs in the much-acclaimed play "Kanser" of Gantimpala Theater Foundation),  Kiel looked so unbelievably confident onstage, an act and impression which is common among theater performers. And when Kiel mixed his moves with charismatic manners, the more he looked and sounded so elegant, especially when he sang his opening song number "Call Me".

As the other young male singers, the likes of Carlo Mendoza, L.A. Santos, and Kyle Matthew appeared onstage, there was this great wonderful feeling of seeing new and fresh promising singers out to conquer your hearts. As they bonded together on stage singing songs like "Ang Huling El Bimbo", "Kisapmata", "O, Pare Ko", and the likes, the real message of the concert was felt: That, it's time now for more good-looking singers and male ones at that, to conquer the Music Industry.

The appearances of gay comedians-singers on stage was a super hit. Mr. Sucaldito simply knew how to delight his audience. It was like a bomb exploding when one gay impersonator fascinated everyone singing a song whose lyrics he changed into a 'Nissin crackers melody' kind of song and passed-along up the air packets of Nissin Ramen crackers to the audience.

Surely, this kind of a concert was something we will never forget. And it further guaranteed, Mr. Marc Kiel Alo has arrived and could now be leveled-up to the statuses of other singers like Michael Pangilinan, Jed Madela and Christian Bautista. He now surely belongs to that category.

Bravo! BACK HOME with Kiel Alo concert was surely the best.

As in FOREVER.



(as written by robert manuguid silverio)