POP ICON Season 2

Riyadh Pop Icon Season 1 (2005)

Special Events Productions (SEP), an accredited community partner of the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia, is staging the Pop Icon competition for the second time after almost four (4) years since the first competition was held in Riyadh in 2005.

Riyadh Pop Icon Season 1 was one of the most well-attended programs in the history of major activities held in the premises of the embassy inside the Diplomatic Quarters where Jamila Dibaratun, student of International Philippine School in Riyadh, was declared Champion.

On its season 2, the search will be kingdom-wide thus Saudi Arabia’s Pop Icon Season 2 champion will be known in May 2009 after two elimination rounds.

The first elimination round will be held on March 5, 2009, second elimination will be on April 24 and the Grand Finals will be on May 15, 2009 at the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh wherein finalists from Western, Eastern and Central regions will compete.

A blogger claims that “the Philippine is known to have a healthy support of good singers" and so the expectations of SE to discover more talented Filipinos in the league of Dibaratun, Albert Padilla, Edgar Esmeria, Jennifer dela Cruz, Lowelene Tolentino, Salma Macabangkit and Enrique Aure, Jr, the seven finalists in the first pop icon search.


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