Juris Fernandez

Julie Iris Fernandez-Lim (née Julie Iris Valles Fernandez; March 18, 1978), also known by her stage name "Juris", is a Filipino singer and songwriter.

Fernandez was born on March 18, 1978, in Davao City, Philippines.

She is the daughter of an engineer father, and an obstetrician-gynecologist mother.

Her older sister is also an obstetrician-gynecologist.

She went to high school at the Ateneo de Davao University.

She studied college at Miriam College in Manila, finishing Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

She is presently taking up a Master's degree at the Ateneo de Manila University.

From 2001 to 2009, she was the lead singer of acoustic group MYMP.

Fernandez started her recording career as the lead vocalist of the acoustic group MYMP after auditioning in 2001.

She was signed to Ivory Records together with her bandmates Chin Alcantara and Mike Manahan.

It was the trio of Alcantara, Fernandez and percussionist Mike Manahan that established the beachhead for M.Y.M.P.’s frontal assault on the sales and radio charts.

Their recording career started when Raymond Ryan, the station manager of iFM, watched their gig.

Ryan met with a producer to produce their debut album, Soulful Acoustic.

Ivory Records then became their recording company.

M.Y.M.P.'s debut album was released oduring their label's 20th anniversary.

The band became famous with their original hit song "A Little Bit" (which won the People's Choice "Favorite Song" Award in Awit Awards 2004) and cover versions of Sting's "Every Little Thing" and Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain".

The trio did click but M.Y.M.P. became a duo when one of their members decided to leave the group.

Manahan left the band in June 2004 due to what was called "professional differences".

Alcantara and Fernandez continued as a duo and emerged together with Andrew and John as bassist and kahonista, respectively, as two more albums were released in a year.

Beyond Acoustic and Versions, both 12-track albums, were declared certified Gold after less than a month.

Their original hit song "Get Me", and covers "Tell Me Where It Hurts", "Kailan", "Especially for You" and "Eternal Flame", were later used as theme songs for TV series and commercial ads.

In late 2009, she left MYMP due to "irreconcilable differences" and signed with Star Music as a solo artist.

In early 2009, MYMP were regularly seen every Sunday on ABS-CBN's variety show ASAP's "Sessionistas" segment together with Nina, Aiza Seguerra, Sitti, Richard Poon and Duncan Ramos.

In November 2009, it was announced that she was leaving the band to pursue as a solo career.

It was also stated that she had signed a recording contract with Star Records.

Upon leaving MYMP, Fernandez signed with Star Records.

Now Playing serves as her launching album to Star Records which includes two of her original compositions.

One of them is the massive hit, "Di Lang Ikaw" which was used as the love theme song of TV series Rubi."Di lang Ikaw" is a collaboration between Juris who wrote the lyrics and Ice Seguerra who arranged the song.

The carrier single is "I Don't Want To Fall".

The album consists of pop songs but mainly of ballads.

The sound of the album is also a departure from her previous all-acoustic style.

Her solo debut album, Now Playing was released in February 2010.

In November 2010, Juris released If You and Me mini album in South Korea in CD format and digital download.

It consists 6 tracks including 2 English cover of Korean songs: "If" by Taeyeon of Girls' Generation and "Don't Forget" by Baek Ji-young.

Also includes her cover of Tamia's "Officially Missing You" and "Opposites Attracts" composed by Junjee Marcelo which is also included in her first studio album Now Playing.

The songs in the album were all recorded in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, Juris is the first Filipino mainstream artist to release an album in South Korea.

But before the release of her mini-album in Korea, it would be recalled that her song "Say You Love Me" taken from her former MYMP's album Versions that topped the Korean charts, Cyworld and BGM Charts for three months.

In November 2011, she married Gavin Lim.

In promotion of the album she appeared at the Green Plugged Seoul 2011 Music Festival on May 14, 2011, at the Nanji Hangang Park.