Charice as a contestant on Season 1 of "Little Big Star" (2005)

12 y/o Charice competes in Little Big Star in hopes of winning the one million peso prize so she can help her family

Highlights from Little Big Star(Charice is 12 y/o)

I Will Always Love you (not sure if this performance was connected to LBS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UedbhUwchy0

Hot Stuff(Charice demonstrates her dancing ability)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3-pxeePDM

Run To You (Very difficult song to sing - Whitney afraid to sing it live) btw Ronald won LBS the following year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oON7Ddm5y9Y

If I Were You(Charice sings through tears while knowing she came in third place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9d1OqE8ozk

Here is Run To You (Charice in Little Big Star)- the above had a typo error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn7Ddm5y9Y

khatman wrote:12 y/o Charice competes in Little Big Star in hopes of winning the one million peso prize so she can help her family

Highlights from Little Big Star(Charice is 12 y/o)

I Will Always Love you (not sure if this performance was connected to LBS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UedbhUwchy0

Hot Stuff(Charice demonstrates her dancing ability)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3-pxeePDM

Run To You (Very difficult song to sing - Whitney afraid to sing it live) btw Ronald won LBS the following year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oON7Ddm5y9Y

If I Were You(Charice sings through tears while knowing she came in third place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9d1OqE8ozk

Correction To "Run To You":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn7Ddm5y9Y

Excerpt from SNN interview @ Charice's new home she bought for her mom. Painful memory of what winning LBS meant to her family and then losing to inferior competition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYLWnXzH8qg