Yeng Constantino

Josephine "Yeng" Eusebio Constantino-Asuncion (born December 4, 1988) is a Filipino singer, songwriter, and television personality.

She is referred to as the Philippines Pop Rock Royalty and is regarded as one of the biggest hitmakers in Philippine music industry.

In 2006, she won the title "Grand Star Dreamer" in the inaugural season of Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine edition of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy.

Constantino is among the most critically acclaimed and best-selling Filipino artists of all time.

Throughout her career, she was honored with around 70 accolades and recognitions including a FAMAS Award, 7 Awit Awards, 9 Myx Music Awards and 5 PMPC Star Awards for Music among many others.

On August 27, 2006, Yeng Constantino auditioned for the inaugural season of the singing competition Pinoy Dream Academy.

In December, Constantino won the competition after garnering 697,648 votes (37.32%), becoming the first "Grand Star Dreamer", followed by Jay-R Siaboc as the first runner-up.

After winning, Star Music launched Constantino's debut album entitled Salamat, containing 10 songs, seven of which were original compositions by Constantino.

Her album reached Gold Record status two weeks after its release and then later went Platinum after a month, followed by a "3× Platinum Record" certification several months later.

After the success of her multi-platinum debut album, Star Music produced Constantino's second album.

Salamat, her debut album, was released in January 2007 under Star Records.

It was a commercial success, being triple Platinum in the Philippines and produced five #1 hits and six top 10 hits, the most by any female artist.

It peaked at number-one and spent nine months inside the Top 10 on the Odyssey album charts.

The following year, her sophomore album Journey was released.

It was certified Gold by PARI and peaked at number-eight on the Odyssey album charts and spent 3 months inside the Top 20.

On February 28, 2008, her second album, Journey was launched.

The carrier single is "Ikaw Lang Talaga".

The album contains 12 tracks, some of which were written by Yeng herself.

The album reached Gold status after several months.

Sometime in November 2008, Constantino became a member of the all-female group Y.R.S., a group composed of Constantino, Rachelle Ann Go and Sarah Geronimo that was a segment of ASAP '08 until its disbandment in March/April 2010 following Go's transfer to GMA Network.

In the next five years, Constantino released the self-written album Lapit (2009) and Metamorphosis (2013) where the latter reached Gold status and produced the hit song "Chinito".

Lapit, her third studio album, was released digitally via Star Records' official website on October 9, 2009, then later released in physical format in music stores in the Philippines; a week later, the album was pulled due to some technical errors in the album tracklisting and was re-released before its grand album launch on November 1, 2009.

By June 2013, Constantino began a relationship with Victor "Yan" Asuncion, a fellow musician and worship director at Victory Christian Fellowship.

In November 2014, All About Love was released.

It peaked at No. 5 on Astrovisions Albums Chart and became the first-full Filipino album to be released on Spotify.

It was certified Gold and produced the hit song "Ikaw".

In March 2014, after nine months of dating, Constantino announced her engagement to Asuncion through an Instagram post.

On February 14, 2015, the couple married at a resort in Tagaytay, Cavite.

Since September 2015, both Constantino and Asuncion went on vegan diets.

In 2022, it was revealed that Constantino was romantically linked to Korean-born Filipino television personality Ryan Bang in 2010.

In 2018, she released her latest album Synesthesia.

CNN Philippines listed Hawak Kamay at number 12 in their list of the Best Filipino Love Songs of the last 25 years.

As an occasional actress, Constantino has starred in a film Write About Love and took home the Best Supporting Actress Award in MMFF 2019, an affirmation of her acting prowess.

As of May 2023, Constantino has more than 350 million career streams on Spotify, becoming one of the most streamed Filipino artists of all time.

Constantino is the youngest of five siblings in the Constantino family.

She is a second cousin of television host and Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus second big placer Robi Domingo.

Her family was raised as a born-again Christian.

In 2020, Ikaw reached the 100 million mark on YouTube, becoming the second most viewed OPM music video by a female artist in the Philippines.

In 2023, Constantino signed with Republic Records.

The same year, she was named as the global ambassadress of Academy of Rock, the only music school in Singapore devoted to teaching rock and popular music.