Young JV

Eduardo JV Arancillo Kapunan III (born July 23, 1990, in Iloilo, Philippines), known as Young JV, is a Filipino actor, singer-songwriter, recording artist, dancer, basketball star, rapper and an advocate. He became famous for his first urban hit single in 2009, "That Girl" which was composed by himself. He produced his first album, Ready Or Not under PolyEast Records and Doin' It Big Production. He performs on the variety show ASAP and is a member of an all-male group, A-pop, which is composed of JV himself, Sam Concepcion, Nel Gomez and Jaco Benin. He is a talent from ABS-CBN's Star Magic known as the "R&B-Pop Sensation" .

Personal life

JV was the youngest son of retired Col. Eduardo "Red" Kapunan, Jr. (PAF) and Elsa Arancillo Kapunan who also manages his career as an artist. He went to London at Cambridge University where he studied in high school but finished his studies at St. Joseph School in Iloilo. In college, he took up Comm Arts at Entrepreneurs School of Asia (ESA). JV is an active civic leader who helps soldier's families through his Lahing Bayani Foundation, Inc. which was set up for its main objective, to help children of soldiers who perished in the line of duty. In 2010, JV also launched "Ready Or Not: Dance Off", a nationwide multimedia competition in which the winners would form his new dance crew. Batang Mama was announced as the winner and got the chance to appear in his music video for "Can't Get Enough". He also took voice and dance lessons and is currently working on his acting skills.

Career

He first appeared in ASAP 09 in the D-Lite segment where he performed with Nikki Gil, Toni Gonzaga and Karylle. Weeks after that episode, he had a duet with Sarah Geronimo singing his first single, "That Girl". The song had massive radio airplay. The music video was also premiered on Myx. The video for "Don’t Know You" is directed by Treb Monteras III. His first album highlighted random songs from a night life of partying to inspirational stories based from his dad's experiences as a soldier.

In 2010, he promoted another single, "Shake Shake" which was the official song used for the said competition. The music video was shot in a bar where a party theme was emphasized.

In 2011, "Kaibigan Lang" was the last single released from his first album where they shot the video at ESA (the school where he studied in college) together with Myx VJ 2011 finalist, Cara Eriguel and celebrity appearances from Gabriel Valenciano and Arron Villaflor.^[1] In the same year, he released his new single, "Alay" from his second album where he collaborated with Star Power finalist, Akiko Solon.^[2] He made his acting debut in the romantic comedy film, Won't Last a Day Without You with Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson as its lead stars.

In 2012, he starred in the primetime drama teleserye, Princess and I where he plays Jonas de Ocampo, the guy who courts Dindi, and entangled in a love triangle with his best friend Kiko, played by Khalil Ramos.^[3]

On August 29, 2013, Young JV eventually released his second studio album, Doin' It Big. The lead single of the album, "Your Name", featuring Myrtle Sarrosa, was eventually chosen as soundtrack for the movie 24/7 In Love. The second single from the album was "Tanong", a midtempo acoustic love song, which also had an accompanying music video.^[4][5] His album featured collaboration with other artists such as Karylle and Yeng Constantino^[4][6] He also made an appearance at Myx Mo! 2013 where he performed "Your Name" with Sarrosa, which received a nomination for Favorite Urban Music Video.^[7] In February 2013, he performed with Zia Quizon, Abra and Bamboo at the opening night of the Himig Handog songwriting contest, held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.^[8] JV tweeted and posted in social media through Twitter and Facebook that a new single will be release entitled, Ngiti (smile) featuring Gary Valenciano on August 25, 2013 that will serve as the lead single (4th over-all) of his repackage album called, Doin' It Big: Platinum Edition.^[9][10][11] In 2014, he took part on the third Philippine Popular Music Festival with former South Border lead vocalist Duncan Ramos as the interpreters for the song entry "Hang Out Lang" written by Allan Feliciano and Isaac Garcia.^[12] He released his first single in 2015 entitle, Ale from his third album, YJV, on June distributed worldwide by Star Music. His second single Flashback feat. Emmanuelle was launched at MOR 91.1 Iloilo, October 2015 and its music video was premiered on MYX the following day and had a Twitter Party with Younglings (Young JV's Official Fans Club). Young JV released his third single Got To Have You February 2016 and its music video is now hitting Pinoy MYX Countdown. February of the current year, he supported ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation's eco-tourism and livelihood projects in Samar and Leyte, visited ALKFI's projects and had a concert for the Kapamilyas there. March - April, he'd been busy supporting Green Thumb Coalition for its Green Thumb Electoral Campaign with its mission of challenging the candidates to include environmental protection on their political agenda. Young JV and his team #YJVteam went all over the Philippines for this. Now he's busy on his acting career. We saw him December 2015 as "Tony" (Kathryn Bernardo's suitor) on Pangako Sa 'Yo (2015 TV series) and this June onwards, we will see him again on ABS-CBN Primetime Bida, featured on Born For You as "Mix". August 27, 2016 Young JV launched globally his new single Pasa Diyos featuring The Phenomenal Star Vice Ganda. This song with its music video is not only proactive in these times but inspirational. Pasa Diyos is available for download on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify, co-produced and distributed digitally worldwide by Star Music.

Achievements

• 2009: ASAP 09 Gold Record Awardee for "That Girl"
• 2009: Wave 89.1 1st Urban Music Awards, Best New Artist of the Year
• 2009: Monster Radio RX 93.1, Best New Artist of the Year at the Year-End Countdown
• 2010: Awit Awards, Best Performance by a New Male Recording Artist
• 2010: MYX Music Awards, Favorite New Artist
• 2011: Wave 89.1 2nd Urban Music Awards, Best Male Style Icon
• 2011: Wave 89.1 2nd Urban Music Awards, Best Music Video - "Can't Get Enough"
• 2011: ASAP Rocks Platinum Circle Awardee for Ready Or Not album
• 2013: ASAP 18 2Gold Record Awardee for "Doin' It Big" album

Television

Studio albums

Film

References

External links

• http://twitter.com/iamyoungjv_
• http://instagram.com/iamyoungjv_
• http://www.facebook.com/IamYoungJV
• https://www.youtube.com/youngjvofficial