Morissette Amon

Morissette Amon
Born	Johanne Morissette D. Amon (1996-06-02) June 2, 1996 Cebu City, Philippines
Residence	Manila, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Occupation	Singer Actress
Years active	2010–present
Agent	Talent5 (2010–2013) ABS-CBN (2014–present) Stages Talent
Known for	The Voice of the Philippines
Website	https://www.facebook.com/MorissetteAmon/
Musical career
Genres	pop R&B Soul Dance OPM
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2014–present
Labels	Star Records (2014–present)
Associated acts	Sarah Geronimo

Johanne Morissette D. Amon (born June 2, 1996), better known by her stage name, Morissette Amon, is a Filipina actress and singer. Amon first rose to prominence when she finished runner-up on TV5's Star Factor at the age of 14. In 2012, Amon made her Broadway debut in the Repertory Philippines production of Disney's Camp Rock. She competed on the first season of ABS-CBN's The Voice of the Philippines in 2013, where she became part of singer Sarah Geronimo's team.

Born and raised in Cebu City, Amon became a recording artist of Star Music/ Star Records early 2014 and released her first album, a self-titled album, Morissette, in March 2015. She was tagged as "The Next Big Diva". She officially became part of the ABS-CBN's Sunday afternoon show, ASAP , in January 2014. They introduced her as one of their Homegrown Divas with her whistle prowess.

Morissette was awarded as the New Female Recording Artist of the Year by the 7th PMPC Star Awards for Music in November 2015 through her album, Morissette. She was also recognized by the National Consumer Affairs Foundation 34th Seal of Excellence Awards as the Outstanding Female Performing Artist of the Year via Gawad Musika Award and Top Filipino Excellence Award because of her dedication and desire to reach for her dreams.

Life and career

2010-2012: Career beginnings and TV5's Star Factor

Johanne Morissette D. Amon was born on June 2, 1996 in Cebu City, Philippines to her mother Ann and father Amay. She's the first child and has one sibling, Jeremy Mattheu Amon. Her family has always been into music, or musically inclined. Her father is a rocker, and his favorite singer was Alanis Morissette. She was 3 years old when her family discovered that she could sing. When she was left alone with the karaoke machine, she sang the Regine Velasquez song, "You are my Song". As she grew up, she sang Jessa Zaragoza songs like Paano Na Kaya and Pretty Pretty Boy.

She joined her first singing contest held by a radio station in Cebu and sang Cristina Aguilera's Reflection. She has been a singing contestant since she was young. At 9 years of age, she joined Little Big Star Little Division, hosted by the same coach she's with in the Voice of the Philippines, Sarah Geronimo.

She also did front acts in mall tours for different artists like Sarah Geronimo and Kim Chui among others back in Cebu.

At the age of 14, she tried her luck on TV5's Talentadong Pinoy but lost. She then was asked to join the new Artista Search of TV5, the Star Factor. Because of her desire to really become a singer performer, she then joined the audition held in Cebu, in which the judges picked her as one of the finalists. She then moved to Manila together with her mother to try her luck on the said competition. Lack of sleep, tiredness, and sacrifices paid off when she reached the top 4 as one of the grand finalists. She was the 1st runner up to Eula Caballero, the Star Factor grand winner. Mr. David Cosico saw the potential in her and decided to manage her career on TV5. She eventually appeared on different TV shows.

In the middle of 2012, she auditioned on the Repertory Philippines Disney's Camp Rock: The Musical and got the role of Mitchie Flores - a smart, talented, passionate girl who fights for what she believes in. She starred alongside Markki Stroem, who played Shane Gray. The musical play was held at Onstage, Greenbelt 1, Makati City from November 16th until December 16th.

At that young age, she became the family's breadwinner being able to pay for the rent, the bills and sending her brother to school. Though she had been away from school, the young Cebuana did not regret making these sacrifices for her family.

2013-present: The Voice of the Philippines and transfer to ABS-CBN

In 2013, she decided to join the Abs-Cbn's new singing competition, The Voice of the Philippines, as per her dream is to really become a singer and a performer.

During the Blind Auditions, she impressed the Popstar Royalty Sarah Geronimo as one of the coach, with her rendition of the song "Love on Top", and became part of the team Sarah.^[1][2] Her luck did not end there because she made it into the Live Shows as she won over her opponent, her co-Team Sarah, Lecelle Trinidad. Coach Sarah chose her over Lecelle, they sang No More Tears (Enough is Enough) during the Battle Rounds.

Morissette impressed the audience during the first Live Shows of The Voice of the Philippines on her powerful rendition of Cristina Perri's Jar of Hearts. She received the highest percentage of votes in the Team Sarah, with 57.16%,^[3][4][5][6] that made her safe from the bottom two of each team and made her advance to the next level of the competition.

For the second Live Shows, Morissette went head to head with former South Border member Maki Ricafort. She sang her piece "What About Love" with all of her heart that made their coach Sarah picked her over Maki giving her 60% for her performance while the remaining 40% on Maki. Her score then was added to her 50.41% public votes, giving her a total of 110.41 points that made her to advance again to the next round of the competition.^[7]

During the semi-finals, she chose to sing the beautiful song of Jessie J, "Who You Are" and performed it with so much emotions but unfortunately she was lost to her co-team, Klarisse De Guzman who went on to represent Team Sarah at the Grand Finals but Mitoy Yonting of Team Lea won.^[8]

That lost did not stop her again to continue believing on herself, on her talent, on her dreams. She went on with guestings, with mall tours together with her co-Voice of the Philippines contestants.

On October 1, 2013, Morissette confirmed her departure from TV5 and that Kapitan Awesome would mark her last project with the network ^[9] as she started to have appearances on Abs-Cbn including ASAP.

As January 2014 begin, Morissette started recurring appearances on ABS-CBN's ASAP,^[10] as they started her to introduce as one of the Divas together with her co-team Sarah's Klarisse de Guzman. They were given a segment on ASAP which is the HD or Homegrown Divas with Angeline Quinto.

But before ASAP, she went on recording the theme song of the drama series Moon of Desire, the self-titled original song, composed by Trina Bellamide, this served as her first project on ABS CBN. Then it opened doors for more themesongs on different ABS-CBN's teleseryes. She also sang theme songs for big movies under Star Cinema; Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now with Daniel Padilla and Someone's Always Saying Goodbye, both year 2015 . The latest was a duet with Piolo Pascual which is, Something I Need, for the movie "Everything About Her" starring Ms. Angel Locsin, Xian Lim, and Ms. Vilma Santos.

On May 2014, she performed her very first solo Concert entitled "This Is Me" as her debut concert, turned 18 on June 2nd. During her concert, she announced that she was already a part of Star Records family.

She's also one of the Himig Handog P-Pop Love Songs Top 15 Finalists of 2014, the most prestigious OPM Songwriting and Music Video competition in the Philippines. She interpreted the "Akin Ka Na Lang" original song, composed and produced by Francis "Kiko" Salazar. This song made a big marked on everyone's heart as it also dominates music charts and countdowns.

As a theatre actress and singer, she still engaged herself on singing on theaters along with Sam Concepcion and Christian Bautista, like Disney's Tale As Old As Times Concert 2014 in the Philippines and sang one of the famous song "Let It Go" with the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra.

One of her greatest experiences was when she joined Jessie J on stage. They sang Who You Are in "Jessie J Live in Manila Concert 2014" at the Big Dome. She was given a chance to interview the International singer via MYX and did a coverage of the concert via ASAP All Access. Jessi J was impressed when she sang the "Who You Are" during the interview backstage before the concert.

In March 2015, Star Records released her first studio album, a self- titled album, Morissette.^[11][12] With the carrier single, "Di Mapaliwanag". This original song was used as a themesong for the Koreanovela, "My Lovely Girl" on Kapamilya ABS CBN and won as Asianovela Themesong of the Year (2015).

At the middle of 2015, she was one of the main casts in Chuva Choo Choo - Mr. Kupido Musicale featuring the songs of Mr. Vehnee Saturno, and expected to have a part two on July 2016.

As a singer and a performer who really is very dedicated, Morissette was very honored to be awarded as the Best New Female Recording Artist of PMPC Star Awards for Music (2015), and to be recognized by the National Consumer Affairs Foundation Seal of Excellence Awards as the Outstanding Female Performing Artist of the Year (2015).

She was recently awarded by the 1st Wish 107.5 Music Awards as their Female Artist of the Year, her first major award for this year 2016. She feel really blessed to receive the award cause financial assistance worth Php 100,000 was extended to the chosen beneficiaries in major categories, her mine was the "Home for the Angels" in Sta. Ana, Manila. She quoted as "I feel blessed because last year I've won awards but they recognized me as a new artist. This one is different because I'm giving away to a beneficiary not just winning for myself".

Shows Abroad

Morissette is one of the most invited performer to sing abroad for the OFWs via TFC.

1. HongKong 2011 with Sir Louie Ocampo, Sam Concepcion and Nikki Gil
2. ASAP Live in Dubai 2014
3. ASAP Live in Los Angeles 2014
4. TFC Live presents Martin N. in Doha, Qatar 2014
5. Barrio Festival in London 2015 with various Kapamilya Artists
6. Pistahan sa San Francisco 2015 (22nd Annual Pistahan Parade and Festival) with Matteo Guidicelli in San Francisco, California
7. Abu Dhabi 2015 with Daniel Matsunaga and Giselle Sanchez
8. TFC One Kapamilya Go 2015 USA with Pangako Sa'yo Casts at Oakland Oracle Arena, San Francisco, California

Vocal range

Morissette Amon is a lyric coloratura soprano, whose vocal range spans five octaves and five notes (C3 - G7) and she also has a whistle register. Her wide vocal range is considered to be akin to that of Mariah Carey.

Performances/results

     Studio Version of song charted.

Song Released

1. CD Album

2. OST/Other Album (TV Shows/ Movies)

Awards and Recognitions

Filmography

Acting credits

As herself

Discography

• Morissette (2015)

Concert

1. This Is Me (a debut concert) - May 30, 2014 at Teatrino, Greenhills