Jennylyn Mercado

Jennylyn Mercado is a Filipina actress, singer, songwriter and model. She was the winner of the first season of StarStruck, a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines. She released three albums from GMA Records and Viva Records which have several well-known singles such as "Sa Aking Panaginip," "Moments Of Love" collaboration with Janno Gibbs, "Maybe This Time" and Kahit Sandali." Jennylyn started out as a recording artist, in 1999, with Alpha Records through the recommendation of her voice coach Susanna Pichay. She was with the singing group G4 of Nonoy Tan.... Unfortunately, two of the co-members did not continue on so the group and the planned album were scrapped. But the group was able to record two songs. After G4, she went into modeling and landed an endorsing stint with Bambini cologne and a Pond's television advertisement. She also made it to the elite Circle of 10 modeling search with fellow StarStruck member, Dion Ignacio, winning the Ms. Photogenic title. In 2003, Mercado joined the reality show StarStruck> She and Mark Herras were proclaimed the winners.
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