MARLISA LIVE IN MANILA
Marlisa, (born Marlisa Ann Punzalan) is a
breakthrough not only because of the reason you're thinking–that she's of
Filipino descent. She has gone to break records in Australia, origin talk
aside.
Jumpstarting her music career pre-X Factor,
Marlisa immersed herself in the live music scene by joining competitions
starting at age 9, earning her first win at Sydney Eisteddfod Performing Arts
Challenge in 2009, and 3 more gold medals in 2013. At age 12, she has already
done a solo concert at a live music venue at Sydney, The Basement, with the
show dubbed as "Marlisa and
Friends" with a setlist of cover songs. Deeply engaged to her roots,
she had also been tagging along the Australian leg of concerts of Pinoy acts
such as Sharon Cuneta, Jose Mari Chan and Aegis.
But what catapulted Marlisa's name into
brighter limelight is that at only 15, she has wowed the judges of The X Factor
Australia, garnering all four yeses upon audition. Marlisa eventually won the
season's round of competition, becoming the first champion from the show's
Under 25 category and ultimately the youngest winner of the entire series. With
the aforementioned under her belt, she immediately signed a recording deal with
Sony Music Australia. Tied in as the winner's single of the 6th season of The X
Factor Australia, Marlisa recorded "Stand
By You", written by Australia's premiere songwriters DNA Songs (Anthony
Egizii and David Musumeci), serving as her music career's pilot single which
debuted at number 2 on the ARIA (Australian
Recording Industry Association) charts only 3 days after release, just
behind Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out
Loud" and running ahead The Veronicas' "You Ruin Me" and Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off".A close race, as "Thinking Out Loud" tallied 29,157 copies sold while "Stand By You", with only
half-a-week's worth of sales during the eligibility week, garnered an
impressive 27,666.Eventually, the single nabbed a platinum certification for
sales tallying more than 70,000 copies sold.
