Carol Banawa

Carol Claire Aguilar Banawa-Crisostomo (born March 4, 1981), better known in the Philippines as Carol Banawa, is a US-based Filipina singer, actress, and nurse.

She is a Star Magic Batch 4 alumna.

Raised in Batangas, she has two siblings, Alexander and Cherry.

Banawa started singing when she was a little girl while her family lived in Saudi Arabia.

Her family then moved back to the Philippines.

There, she was invited to join the new roster of ABS-CBN stars through the children-oriented show Ang TV.

She has performed at the Madison Square Garden in New York City at the 2003 New York Music Festival.

Banawa took a break from the Philippine music scene in August 2003 to attend to the treatment of her father who was exposed to lethal levels of carbon Monoxide.

She is married to Ryan Crisostomo and has three children together.

In 2004, Pinoyvision Records released her Platinum Hits Collection album, a compilation of her songs.

The album also comes with a VCD of Banawa's hit music videos such as "Stay", "Ocean Deep" and "Noon at Ngayon".

In 2010, she made her comeback in the music industry, and starred in the hit Philippine TV series, Mara Clara, where she sang the opening song of the said TV series.

She also covered Till My Heartaches End, the theme song of the 2010 film of the same name.

In 2016, her song "Bakit 'Di Totohanin" was featured in one of the scenes of the U.S. drama series The Vampire Diaries.

She obtained an associate degree in nursing and graduated summa cum laude from the Northern Virginia Community College, Washington, D.C. in 2018.

She later obtained a bachelor's degree in nursing from Grand Canyon University in 2020.

Presently, she is an OR registered nurse based in the United States.