Charice collaborates with Black Eyed Peas' Taboo and Apl for Gawad Kalinga song

By ROWENA JOY A. SANCHEZ

May 5, 2011, 6:25pm

Charice with BEP’s Taboo (Photo from Taboo’s Twitter)

MANILA, Philippines – Charice continues to stretch her musical wings with her collaboration with Fil-Ams Jasmine Villegas and Black Eyed Peas’ Apl. de. ap, Apl's co-member Taboo, and singer-songwriter Jeremy Passion for a benefit song.

The aforementioned artists got together for “One Voice,” a song produced for the benefit of Gawad Kalinga (GK), the Filipino international organization committed to eradicate poverty by building empowered and sustainable communities, as reported on HollywoodLife.com.

Taboo, who wrote “One Voice” with Kristin Hosien (according to his tweet on May 4), is all praises for Charice.

“Charice was just in here, and she’s got an amazing voice. She’s just a mega power house when it comes to her singing capabilities,” he told HollywoodLife.com in an interview.

The Filipina international sensation re-tweeted on Taboo’s Twitter post of their photo together on May 4. His post was accompanied with this text: “@officialcharise collabo happened today for the big record we got along with @jeremypassion @apl_de.”

Taboo also noted in one of his tweets that Apl, whose real name is Allan Pineda, also helped out in making the song.

“my brother Apl_de is next to drop a verse on my song ..” a part of his post on Wednesday read.

Talks of an Apl-Charice team-up have been around for quite some time now. Apl himself revealed months back his plan of including Charice in a song he wrote for the celebration of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution. In his interview with “The Buzz” in late February, he said: “I wanted to involve her in it (song). It’s not fully done so I have time to put her on it.”

Taboo, a Mexican-American, described “One Voice,” which was produced by Mexican duo Avila Brothers, as a “Latino / Filipino world anthem.” He believes the song will “show our unity within brown pea-ple coming together as one voice/ one heart /one beat!!”

“and it's gonna be the anthem for #Gawad Kalinga !!” Taboo also said.

Release date for the song is yet to be announced.

Although HollywoodLife.com mentioned Jasmine in their report, Taboo curiously did not bring up the young singer’s name in his tweets related to the “One Voice” project.

Many may well remember Jasmine as Justin Bieber’s leading lady in his hit video, “Baby.”