Rating Morisette as an actress

From the get-go, she was first choice for the part.

- MOVIEGOER NESTOR CUARTERO

And the producers, Girlie Rodis and Celeste Legaspi, proved themselves right.

Morisette, formerly known as just a singer who goes by the funny, nonsensical title, Asia's Phoenix, (I cringe just having to write it down), acquits herself well in the lead role of the school teacher who gathered a bunch of street children and groomed them into a choir. This was in the 1980s and the scenery was the rustic town of Loboc, Bohol, known for its beautiful, picturesque river.

Morisette told a June 7 media con in Mandaluyong that having had no previous acting experience in a movie, she had to work double-time especially since she’s portraying a real-life person.

She found Ma'am Alma Taldo, the devoted founder of Loboc Children's Choir (LCC) quite reserved.

"She didn’t say much. I had to imagine what she was like when she was younger and quite active in the local community."

Morisette also had to ask other people in Loboc what the old teacher, now in her late 70s, was really like.