Jessica Sanchez on a 5-city Philippine concert tour

Here's another Jessica Sanchez news for you American Idol fanatics.

Fresh from her stint at the recently concluded American Idol Season 11, runner-up Jessica Sanchez will doing a 5-city Philippine tour.

Manila, Bataan, Baguio, Cebu and Davao will be her pitstops here in the Phillipines.

A show to be held at the Newport Performing Arts Theater of Resorts World Manila is still under works, this will be in addition to the 5-city tour originally scheduled.

The shows comes after her scheduled concert with the other American Idol finalists on September 21 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

The specific dates and venue are still yet to be determined but I am sure that her fans are eagerly awaiting for this concert.

This concert will serve as a test for the 16-year old diva as this will be her first solo major concert after being part of the American Talent show.

Talking about a very busy schedule for Jessica Sanchez, that will be a total of 6 shows for Jessica Sanchez (who I think still deserved to win!)

Jessica Sanchez's concert is actually made possible by a Radio High 105.9 a local fm radio station here in the Philippines.

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My childhood dream: Radio Disc Jockey

I used to work as a radio disc jockey for a local radio station in Naga City. Our genre consists of R&B, Hip-Hop, POP and top 40 hits similar to what people see in MTV. When I started working as a DJ, it was a culmination of a childhood dream. I vividly remember when I was in my grade school days, I used to dream of working as a radio disc jockey, I remember that I used to do role play while inside the bathroom, changing my voice and blabbing the entire time. Introducing songs, greeting people and talking about nonsense stuff, I imitate jocks that I hear before and try as hard as possible to sound like them which I totally fail to do. Not when I stepped into college where I saw the opportunity to have my childhood dream realized. Radio stations in Naga are just a ride away and some even a walk away from my grandmother's place. I got so engrossed with radio that I became a regular caller at one of the stations there! Heck even attended EB's just to be a certified member. Then after 2 years, I finally got the gig, one of the jocks asked me to audition and luckily I got hired. I was the youngest DJ then, I was 19. I have never felt so good after that instance. I was living my childhood dream and realizing every moment of it.

My close to 3 years of radio work helped me develop my social, interpersonal and communication skills and I was very thankful that I got to experience doing it since it prepared me for the real world outside college.

Now, I currently work in the BPO industry for almost 7 years, but still the idea of me going back to radio is there. Imagine, how many people around the world gets to fulfil their childhood fantasy? I guess I am one of those lucky few.

I missed being a DJ. The itch to go on-the-air is still there. Now I remember what my former jock mates said that, "once a DJ always a DJ" hopefully, I can still get the chance and do it all again.