About Joey Albert

Joey Albert, is a 30- year veteran of the television and movie business. She had starred in movies alongside Philippine A-list come­dians that included Dolphy, Tito, Vic and Joey. A concert queen who had performed all over the world, Miss Albert is also a well-known singer and songwriter, with a bunch of records and she says. “I used to stand up in dressers and sing with a hair­brush and deliver beauty pag­eant speeches in front of the mirror just like any other little girl... But never once did I think they would all come true.”

It all started in 1982, after she won the Dream Girl Filipina con­test on TV in the Philippines. By 1983, Joey Albert had launched a singing career that swept the Philippine showbiz scene like a tsunami, winning every major singing and performing award given to local artists along the way: Best Female Artist three years in a row from 1983-1985; a Gold Record Award for her song Tell Me in 1986; then a Platinum Record Award for Iisa Pa Lamang in 1994. In between those years, Miss Albert also bagged at least 2 Awit Awards, plus a Famas and a Manila Film Festival trophy apiece.

From 1984 to the present, Joey Albert had headlined a se­ries of sold-out concerts in the Philippines, Canada, the US, and in other countries, some­times performing with her old barkadas, other well-known singers like Martin Nievera, Pops Fernandez, Gary Valenciano, and Zsa Zsa Padilla. Later in her career, she also hosted Bahay Kalinga, an award-winning out­reach program at ABS-CBN.

Joey Albert migrated to Can­ada with her husband Vicente Pacis III and their two daughters, Trixie and Margarita in 1995. They came here, according to Miss Albert, to be able to live a successful and fulfilling family life, something that a show busi­ness life will not allow.

“My family remains my top priority,” Miss Albert says, “next only to God.

Nowadays, she owns and op­erates a Catholic daycare/pre­school called The Good Shepherd Daycare in Coquitlam. “Teaching was always my second love”, she admits. Yet Joey Albert, like most super-moms, still finds time to sing and perform for her audience, in between looking after her family and running her preschool.

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Joey Albert Website: www.joeyalbert.com

Written by Crisanta Sampang
Photo Description: Joey Albert with David Pomeranz
Photography: Art Viray