Beverly

Beverly (ビバリー) is a Filipino-born singer who moved to Japan in 2016 to starts her full-scale music activities and signed to the label avex trax.

Biography
Beverly Caimen was born as the third child to Ramon Vega Caimen and Leticia Valdez Lumbres, having a brother and two sisters. Since her little, she has loved singing along to the music on the radio, and often sang songs from Whitney Houston and Beyonce , but she was so shy that she can't sing in front of anyone other than her family members. At that time, her mother encouraged her to attend voice lessons at the age of nine.

At the age of 13, she began to participate in the Filipino singing contest accompanied by her mother, who was watching in the front seat , the first song she sang in the contest was Christina Aguilera's "The Voice Within".

At the age of 14, she was suggested by her voice lesson coach to practice with the song "Listen" by American singer Beyonce. Thanks to that, she acquired a high tone voice of more than two octaves to reach the high range from 3F to 5A , which called "out of standard"  or "different dimension"  , and makes it her strong characteristic. After that, through her activities at the "Entertainment Club" that she belonged to in high school, she decided to become a professional singer in the future.

At the age of 19, she participated in a professional singing contest for the first time, and won the highest award for vocalist performance against other professionals. Whitney Houston's "one moment in time" she sang at that time is a song that is meaningful to her even up until now. After that, she continued to challenge foreign singing contests in the United States and Qatar.

Vehnee Saturno, a well-known Philippine composer and music producer and Beverly's voice trainer at the time, who has won numerous awards at music festivals around the world, passed a demo tape and introduced Beverly to Yoda Haruo, the president and music producer of UNIVERSOUL, who had worked on MISIA, AI, Kato Miliyah, RIRIKO, Kahara Tomomi, etc., and Max Matsuura, the CEO of Avex and music producer who appreciated her high-tone voice. Shortly after, Beverly started her musical activities in Japan by signing a contract to the label avex trax.

Basically she does have an interest in Japanese culture, going to Japan was one of her life goals. She have been watching Japanese anime a lot since her childhood, and liked Doraemon, Slam Dunk, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, One Piece, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Fairy Tail. Through these animations, she gained an interest in Japanese music, especially Ohguro Maki's singing Slam Dunk ending theme "Anata Dake Mitsumeteru", and she searched for the lyrics on the Internet and sang it many times.

Her music influences include Sarah Geronimo, the Philippines national singer, and Utada Hikaru along with MISIA were mentioned as her respected divas in Japan , she also released a cover studio recording video of MISIA's "Everything" on YouTube. In addition, she often listened to Superfly that she learned after coming to Japan and Shimizu Shota for male singer. In the Philippines, slow ballads were the main thing, but the change to upbeat pop peculiar to Japan, she responded by saying it as a good challenge as well as a study for her.

On May 31, 2017, she released her debut album AWESOME. The song "I need your love" was introduced to the producer of the drama starring himself by Oguri Shun, who felt in love with Beverly's outstanding live performance, and soon after selected as the opening theme of Fuji TV drama CRISIS Special Security Squad.

On her 24th birthday, June 20, 2018, she released her second album 24 which includes the song "Be The One" in collaboration with Komuro Tetsuya and Asakura Daisuke of "PANDORA" which became the theme song of Kamen Rider Build.

Beverly activities are not limited to Japan, she also has been selected as a support act for the performance of Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman Tour in Japan, and was invited to perform at the ASEAN 50th Anniversary Supper held in her home country of Manila, the Philippines which participated by 1500 government officials including President Duterte of the Philippines, President Trump of the United States, and Prime Minister Abe of Japan.

She has attracted attention not only from Japan but also from all over the world, such as being selected as an artist participating in "YouTube Music Sessions", a support project for artists who are expected to be active in the future by YouTube.

Studio albums

 * 1) [2017.05.31] AWESOME
 * 2) [2017.09.20] AWESOME (DELUXE)
 * 3) [2018.06.20] 24
 * 4) [2019.12.04] INFINITY

Mini albums

 * 1) [2016.12.28] Tell Me Baby

Compilation albums

 * 1) [2016.11.16] Disney Magical Pop Christmas
 * 2) [2017.10.25] Thank You Disney
 * 3) [2018.02.07] DJ KAORI'S JMIX BEST
 * 4) [2018.02.14] Dream2 ~Disney Greatest Songs~

Singles

 * 1) [2018.01.24] Be The One
 * 2) [2018.02.28] A New Day
 * 3) [2018.08.04] Everlasting Sky (movie ver.)

Digital singles

 * 1) [2016.11.09] A Whole New World (ホール・ニュー・ワールド)
 * 2) [2016.12.11] Nowhere to go!
 * 3) [2016.12.16] Do That!
 * 4) [2016.12.23] Butterfly
 * 5) [2017.02.08] Just once again
 * 6) [2017.04.11] I need your love
 * 7) [2017.09.03] Be The One (PANDORA feat. Beverly) [TV size]
 * 8) [2017.09.20] I need your love (SICK INDIVIDUALS Remix)
 * 9) [2017.10.04] Ai wo Kanjite (愛を感じて)
 * 10) [2017.11.22] Despacito
 * 11) [2017.12.13] Xmas with you
 * 12) [2018.01.05] Be The One (PANDORA feat. Beverly) [full size]
 * 13) [2018.01.15] A New Day
 * 14) [2018.01.31] All I Want
 * 15) [2018.04.16] Baby don't cry ~Kamisama ni Fureru Kuchibiru~ (Baby don’t cry 〜神様に触れる唇〜)
 * 16) [2018.05.09] LOVE THERAPY
 * 17) [2018.05.25] Guardian (TETSUYA KOMURO feat.Beverly)
 * 18) [2018.05.30] Power of love
 * 19) [2018.06.06] JUMP!
 * 20) [2018.06.06] I'm Ready
 * 21) [2018.06.13] Fly in the sky (Produced by Sick Individuals)
 * 22) [2018.06.19] Happy Birthday (Acoustic ver.)
 * 23) [2018.10.05] power of the dream/Endless Harmony feat.LOREN
 * 24) [2019.02.07] Adventure
 * 25) [2019.04.12] Again
 * 26) [2019.04.24] Sagashi ni Ikou yo (探しに行こうよ)

Collaborations/Others

 * [2018.06.27] Various Artists - TETSUYA KOMURO ARCHIVES K (Disc 4-#9 "Be The One")
 * [2018.07.25] May J. - Cinema Song Covers (Disc 1-#1 "Another Day of Sun")
 * [2018.08.15] 90S & NEW REVIVAL (#3 "FACES PLACES")
 * [2020.07.08] Natsukoi Basket♪ (#19 "I'm Ready")

Concerts

 * ~Beverly 1st JOURNEY "AWESOME"~ (2017)
 * ~Beverly 1st JOURNEY "AWESOME" Encore Tour~ (2017)
 * Beverly 2nd JOURNEY "24" (2018)