Klariz Magboo

Klariz Laurelle Magboo (Kanji: Klariz Magboo, born: October 23, 1988) is a half-Swiss half-Filipino Philippine voice actress. She became famous in Philippine anime television being the voice behind Tenma Tsukamoto in School Rumble, five year-old Lambo and Kyoko in Reborn!, Mak in Soul Eater (manga), Mikan Sakura in Alice Academy (Gakuen Alice), Inoue Orihime in Bleach (manga), Powered Buttercup and Hyper Blossom in Powerpuff Girls Z, Tomoko in GTO- in Great Teacher Onizuka, Vanilla Mieux in Sugar Sugar Rune, and Ash Ketchum in Pokémon. She is currently a radio disc jockey in the Philippines and known as DJ Kara Lambingera^[1][2] of 93.9 iFM from Monday to Saturday 9PM-1AM. DWKC-FM, under the brand iFM, is a music FM radio station owned and operated by Radio Mindanao Network in the Philippines.

Career

The main role of Ash Ketchum was given to Magboo, who is also a professional singer, model and stage performer. She also voices Ash's mother, Delia Ketchum. Magboo started her dubbing career since 1999. Aside from being a dubber, she has also been a solo vocalist in various bands and later become a solo performer in piano bars and hotels.

Magboo is also one of the^[3][4] first batch of 30 girls of^[5] Take Me Out who are in hopes to meet the man of their dreams.^[6] Take Me Out! is a television dating game show hosted by Jay-R (with occasional co-hosts Gladys Guevarra and Janna Dominguez). The show is a version of Australian game show Taken Out, created by^[7] Frenmantle Media France. It premiered on April 26, 2010 on GMA Network and is currently shown twice a day, 5:00PM–5:30PM from Mondays to Fridays in a half hour slot. The programme is hosted by the Philippines' ‘Platinum Prince of Soul’ Jay-R (Jay R Sillona), in what is the country's first-ever studio-based dating game show.

Magboo has also appeared in several television programs such as Wowowee,^[8] Eat Bulaga,^[9] Go Bingo,^[10] Sabado Boys^[11] The Beat,Voice of the Youth^[12] Dear Friend^[13] and Dream Date, the 1st ORIGINAL PINOY Dating Game Show on Studio 23 which premiered on July 15, 2011 Friday at 11:30 PM and hosted by Myx VJ, Bianca Roque^[14] and Umagang Kay Ganda host, Andrei Felix.

Klariz Magboo was the first place winner in EZT Productions and Talent Agency on its first on line model contest for 2011^[15] which ran for 3 months and participated by 7 models in each month. The awarding was held at Eastwood Libis QC in June 2011.

Magboo is the co- host vocal artist of Aga Muhlach in TV 5(Associated Broadcasting Company)'s Pinoy Explorer as Computer X and for trivias in the said program. Pinoy Explorer is a Philippine Infotainment show hosted by Aga Muhlach and aired on TV5. It airs every Sundays at 6:30-7:30 pm after Pidol's Wonderland. It started airing on September 18, 2011.

She is also the voice-over of Juicy!'s "Expres Pasabog Top 5 "from October 2011 till present. Juicy! is an entertainment news program that premiered on August 11, 2008 on TV5 hosted by Alex Gonzaga, IC Mendoza, Cristy Fermin and Shalala. The show features entertainment news, trivia, fan features, and interviews that highlight the Philippine entertainment industry. It is aired Weekdays 10:00-10:20 AM.

Personal life

Magboo began participating in school's oral interpretation contest when she was 7 years old. Magboo is a two-time Grand Champion in Declamation in two consecutive Tagig’s Vox Juvenum Tagisan ng Talino Interschool competition. The first was on February 11, 1996 in elementary division when she was in grade IV and on February 26, 2000 in high school division when she was in 2nd year. Both were held at Sta. Ana Parochial School (now Colegio de Santa Ana) in Tagig City. The Inter-school's Vox Juvenum was followed by Saint Francis of Assisi College System's Inter-Campus contest during its "English Week" celebration in the same year and it was considered by Magboo to be her "most memorable"contest participation, for they were only two from grade IV along with other grade V and grade VI contestants. She was also the "youngest" and "the only female" in the group for elementary category . As she remembers she was being mocked by other students during the contest because of her costume and they say the piece has to be rendered by a male. The oratorical piece was entitled "Brutus Speech in th Forum".^[16] It was in this year where Magboo received a special Declaimer of the Year award upon consistently bagging the Champion place during its Inter-campus and Inter-school competition. From then, she became a consistent and undefeated champion for all the elocution contests she had participated during her elementary and high school years.

She began acting in school plays when she was in grade school, in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Samson and Delilah and Linggo Ng Wika "Pagsasadula" where she won her first Best Actress award in grade V. Magboo had no professional training in voice acting but her regular participation in Quiz Bee's Elocution Contests in her school Saint Francis of Assisi College System-Tagig with her mother as her voice coach and trainer. She has also trained in singing through participation in school's singing contests and took formal voice lessons later on.

Her first job as a voice actor came when she was 13 years old by her fellow TV commercial model Karl Angelo Legaspi,^[17] who recommended that she audition for a telenovela which he also dubbed. Synchmaster Studio and Ms. Vangie Labalan^[18] then discovered her and gave way to Magboo's voice acting career. Since then she has been among the better-known and more popular voice actors.^[19] Magboo also won the Best Single Entry for Voice-over commercial by ADFARM^[20] in Ad Congress Philippines in 2004. She received the 2010 "Charm Me Campus Jock" title being the Grandchampion for Charmee SupahStar Campus Search^[21][22] held recently participated by hundreds of students from eight universities.

Magboo's first theater experience was^[23] "The Magic Staff" where she played Samsara (in the disguise of three princesses).^[24] The Magic Staff-A Musical Adventure in Three Acts is a play created by eight-year-old Cy Tamura and directed by Henry Tejero.

Her dj career began when her friend Pocholo Gonzales called her up and asked if she wanted to work as a dj and he recommended her to a colleague who was looking for a female dj. She cant make a decision though she wanted due to her class schedule as a graduating student. The following year after she graduated in college at Philippine Women’s University with AB Communication Arts degree she went to an audition. Her name on-air Kara is from her nickname off air Carah with its Latin,Italian and Spanish meaning combined "beloved" "dear""friend" that goes along with her on-air image "Kara Lambingera".

Filmography (Tagalog version)

Cartoons

Telenovelas

MOVIES(TV)

Commercials

TV Appearances

Gallery

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  Klariz Magboo performing "The Spider and the Fly"during the Vox Juvenum Interschool declamation contest|

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  Klariz Magboo during SFACS' Recognition Day with Declaimer of the Year special award

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  Klariz Magboo During as she receives Best Actress in Linggo ng Wika "Pagsasadula"

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  Klariz Magboo taken during stage performance with her band named SERSIDE in Laguna in 2004

References

External links

• Klariz Magboo at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Klariz Magboo's YouTube Channel
• YouTube Channel for CharmeeSupahStar
• Klariz Magboo in Take Me Out! (Philippines)
• Klariz Magboo at K-Zone Philippines(children's magazine)