Zephanie Dimaranan

Zephanie Odhene Liwag Dimaranan (born February 14, 2003), is a Filipino singer, actress and host.

She is known as the winner of the first season of Idol Philippines.

Dimaranan is dubbed as "This Generation's Pop Princess" in the country by various media outlets.

She joined the Himig 11th Edition as the interpreter of "Tinadhana Sa'Yo", which won MOR’s Choice and TFC’s Global Choice Awards.

As of January 2022, she has surpassed 10 million all-time streams on Spotify.

Her self-titled debut album “Zephanie” immediately hit No. 1 on iTunes Philippines upon release while all-tracks charted within the Top 100.

Zephanie was hailed as the "New Female Recording Artist of the Year" at the 12th PMPC Star Awards for Music and Singer of the Year in the first KUMU Livestreaming Awards.

Her first television appearance was in 2012, via GMA Network's Biritera, which she thought it was a singing contest, turned out to be a musical drama series and ended up getting a role.

Later in 2013, Zephanie also played a minor role in a Christmas episode of ABS-CBN's fantasy anthology, Wansapanataym.

In 2015, Zephanie joined the second season of The Voice Kids, where she was eliminated in the first week of the semifinals.

The same year, The Voice Kids season 2 released their album, composed of twelve songs sung by the Semi-finalists including Zephanie with the songs Flashlight and Saan Darating Ang Umaga.

Few years after, she started to do some cover songs on her YouTube channel, one of which is 'Till I Met You, which had garnered more than a million hits since it was uploaded.

In 2017, she participated in the second season of Tawag ng Tanghalan, where she lost against the eventual champion Janine Berdin.

In May 2019, her audition on Idol Philippines was aired and immediately hit a million views on YouTube.

Since then, her performances in the said TV show was one of the most viewed performances.

During the last part of the Final Showdown, the 3 finalists sung their original songs, which were also released on Spotify including her song Pangarap Kong Pangarap Mo composed by record producer Jonathan Manalo.

On July 28, 2019, she was hailed as the first grand winner of Idol Philippines after garnering 100 percent of the votes, earning a ₱2,000,000 cash prize, along with an all-expense trip to Taiwan, a house and lot from Camella Homes, and a contract with Star Music.

In August 2019, Zephanie was launched as a new regular performer of ASAP Natin 'To and eventually became part of an all-female vocal group named "J.E.Z", together with Janine Berdin and Elha Nympha.

On September 3, 2019, Zephanie's rendition of Ebe Dancel’s “Bawat Daan” in the TV series ‘The Killer Bride,’ was heard on the teaser trailer for the September 4 episode.

The song was released on September 27 in all digital music platforms together with the duet version with Ebe Dancel.

On September 28, 2019, an episode about her life story was aired, titled "Contest".

She was portrayed by Maris Racal, with Yesha Camile portraying the younger Zephanie.

On November 16 & 17, Zephanie joined former Westlife member Brian McFadden on his First Major Solo Concert in the Philippines called "Romantic Intimate Concert" at Waterfront Cebu and New Frontier Theater.

Few days after, Zephanie held her first major solo concert on November 28, 2019, at the New Frontier Theater, with Sarah Geronimo, Elha Nympha, Idol Philippines Top 4 – Lance, Lucas, Dan and Miguel, Erik Santos and Regine Velasquez (Moira Dela Torre and Janine Berdin were originally supposed to be part of the concert's special guests, but pulled out due to health issues. ) as her special guests.

Her song "Sabihin Mo Na Lang Kasi" was listed as one of the most successful songs released in 2020 by Star Music with a combined of over a million streams.

She notably was one of the 12 winners to be chosen to join the Now United bootcamp in Abu Dhabi in September 2021.

Dimaranan also performed a duet with Brian McFadden, member of Irish boy band Westlife during his concert in the Philippines.

She is currently an artist under GMA Network, as a mainstay of the variety show, All-Out Sundays.

Zephanie Odhene Liwag Dimaranan was born and raised in Biñan, Laguna, third of five kids.

She described her parents (her father is a pastor) as strict but according to her, she and her siblings learned so much from them.

Prior to her participations in singing contests, Zephanie started her career as a child actress.

During the concert, "Pangako Ko", was released on YouTube as a digital single and it was later released on January 24, 2020, to streaming sites.

On February 7, 2020, she released her first movie theme song "Simpleng Tao" originally sung by Gloc-9 for the movie "James and Pat and Dave".

She released another single under Star Music "Sabihin Mo Na Lang Kasi" on July 24, 2020.

In March 2020, she was launched as one of the faces of Palmolive Naturals Shampoo along with Maine Mendoza.

On July 29, 2020, Zephanie debuted as the host together with Kyle Echarri as they launched their online music variety show entitled "CSTV Presents: Artist Lab", appearing on Cornerstone Entertainment’s Facebook Page with simultaneous streaming on their Official Facebook pages.

The show was originally set to last for 4 consecutive weeks every Wednesday.

However, the online show was suspended from August 4, 2020, after Metro Manila was placed under a modified Enhanced Community Quarantine for 2 weeks.

The show returned on October 16, 2020, with a new timeslot every Fridays instead of Wednesdays.

The resumed season lasted until November 6, 2020.