Alyssa Alano

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Alyssa Alano is a film and TV actress in the Philippines. She is a former dancer with the popular Viva Hotbabes franchise. Alano was born Geramie Daud in Zamboanga City to an Australian father (who later abandoned her and her mother) and a Filipina mother on August 11, 1987.

1 The "Keys Me" Video on YouTube
2 Filmography
3 Video Links
4 References
5 External links

[edit] The "Keys Me" Video on YouTube

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Alyssa Alano on the infamous "Keys Me" clip

Movie actors in the Philippines are almost always required by their respective studios to do guest appearances on variety shows to promote upcoming films and/or products, usually performing a current radio hit song, whether they can sing or not. In June 2006, Alano performed the song "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer in an episode of GMA-7's late night show Master Showman Presents. Alano sang the English song in a heartfelt, cheerful way, but with a heavy Tagalog accent and perceived mispronounciations of some of the lyrics - a habit many Filipinos find amusing.

The video features karaoke-style subtitles programmed by the person who created the clip. The subtitles are done in a scrolling text to simulate a karaoke or videoke session, with artificial exclamatories in between verses and the singer's score at the end. The lyrics were spelled how they allegedly sounded like when Alano sang "Kiss Me," (allegedly sounding like "keys me," "parflays," etc.) which served as the punchline to this prank. Toward the end of the month, the clip had been viewed over 400,000 times.

Apparently, Alano had no idea that her YouTube video was making rounds in cyberspace until it was shown to her during an interview on the show Chika Minute ("Chat" Minute).

Interestingly, Alano has been a good sport in her reactions to the sudden popularity of her singing video, even publicly thanking the anonymous prankster who created the clip, saying it got her a lot of attention/publicity, and that it has truly helped her showbiz career take off. ^[1] She has since appeared in a few TV talk shows to jokingly re-sing "Keys Me" along with the clip's audio track.

Alano's pranksters have also broadcast another karaoke-style video of her singing "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira and "Crush" by Jennifer Paige.

[edit] Filmography

Enteng Kabisote 3: Okay ka fairy ko... The legend goes on and on and on (2006)
Bahay Mo Ba 'To? (Is This Your House?, 2006)
Love To Love (2006)
Lagot Ka...Isusumbong Kita (You're In Big Trouble...I'm Going To Tell On You, 2004)