Carla Guevara-Laforteza pens message as daughter set to debut in HYBE-Geffen global girl group

E. Kristhoff Cagape

<p id="isPasted">Carla Guevara-Laforteza, the mother of Filipino talent Sophia Laforteza, took to social media to celebrate the victory of her daughter in the survival show <em>The Debut: Dream Academy.</em></p><p>On Saturday, November 18, it was announced that Sophia is set to debut as a member of HYBE and Geffen global girl group KATSEYE.</p><p>&quot;She DREAMED it, she PRAYED for it, she WORKED hard for it, she REACHED it! THATS MY GIRL!!!! 🌎&quot; Carla posted on her Instagram.</p><p>Sophia is the first Filipina to be part of a girl group of HYBE in partnership with Geffen.</p><p><iframe class="instagram-media" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3qFasuhdS3qFtZbxqWiFPSYuCbnScvtOJBaIp3K-xGAmotEId1XXiRzJE#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A2459137.5999999978%2C%22ls%22%3A2439329.1999999993%2C%22le%22%3A2441424.5999999978%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="0" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px; position: absolute;"></iframe></p><blockquote class=" instagram-media-registered" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" id="instagram-media-payload-2" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"><br/></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"><br/></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"><br/></div><div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><br/></div><div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; line-height:18px;">View this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"><br/></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"><div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"><br/></div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"><br/></div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"><br/></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"><br/></div><div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"><br/></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"><div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"><br/></div><div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"><br/></div></div></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"><br/></div></div></a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Carla Guevara Laforteza (@carlaguevaraofficial)</a></p></div></blockquote><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Carla wrote: &quot;WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!!! FIRST FILIPINA EVER TO BE PART OF HYBE-GEFFEN record label representing Southeast Asia in the new Global Group KATSEYE !!!! THANK YOU @sophia_laforteza FOR MAKING THE ENTIRE PHILIPPINES PROUD!!!&quot;</p><p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czx0Ue2uSBu/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3qFasuhdS3qFtZbxqWiFPSYuCbnScvtOJBaIp3K-xGAmotEId1XXiRzJE#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2441519.5999999978%2C%22ls%22%3A2439329.1999999993%2C%22le%22%3A2441424.5999999978%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;"></iframe></p><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Celebrity friends of Carla were quick to extend their congratulatory messages to her and to Sophia for this massive milestone.</p><p>&quot;Yahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Congratulations, Sophia!!!!!!!&quot; Lea Salonga commented.</p><p>&quot;Wow congratulations!!!🔥&quot; Rachelle Ann Go wrote.</p><p>Carla is a singer herself. She is a theater actress who appeared in widely acclaimed musicals like <em>Miss Saigon&nbsp;</em>in London and <em>Saturday Night Fever. <br/></em></p><p>In the final episode of <em>The Debut: Dream Academy</em>, Sophia outperformed nine other finalists, gaining a combined score of 88.33 from both viewer votes and judges&#39; evaluations.</p><p><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/11/19/filipino-talent-sophia-laforteza-to-debut-as-member-of-hype-geffen-s-new-global-girl-group-1007" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><u>READ: Filipino talent Sophia Laforteza to debut as member of HYPE, Geffen&rsquo;s new global girl group</u></strong></a></p><p>&quot;I can&rsquo;t even put it into words but I&rsquo;ve worked so hard to be here and I appreciate everybody who has voted for me and has supported me since day one. My family, my friends, my sonnies, I wouldn&rsquo;t be here if it wasn&rsquo;t for you guys,&quot; Sophia said in the final show as the results were unveiled.</p><p>She added: &quot;Thank you to everybody in this whole project for believing in me and for allowing me to grow. I&rsquo;m so grateful.&quot;</p><p>Other winning contestants who will debut as part of KATSEYE are Lara, Megan, and Daniela from the US; Yoonchae from South Korea; and Manon from Switzerland.</p>

<p>Sophia is the first Filipina to be part of a girl group of HYBE in partnership with Geffen.<p><iframe class="instagram-media" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3qFasuhdS3qFtZbxqWiFPSYuCbnScvtOJBaIp3K-xGAmotEId1XXiRzJE#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A2459137.5999999978%2C%22ls%22%3A2439329.1999999993%2C%22le%22%3A2441424.5999999978%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="0" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px; position: absolute;"></iframe><blockquote class=" instagram-media-registered" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" id="instagram-media-payload-2" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"><br/></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"><br/></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"><br/></div><div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><br/></div><div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; line-height:18px;">View this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"><br/></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"><div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"><br/></div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"><br/></div><div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"><br/></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"><br/></div><div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"><br/></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"><div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"><br/></div><div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"><br/></div></div></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"><br/></div><div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"><br/></div></div></a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzxmBpoPgcr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Carla Guevara Laforteza (@carlaguevaraofficial)</a></div></blockquote><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Carla wrote: &quot;WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!!! FIRST FILIPINA EVER TO BE PART OF HYBE-GEFFEN record label representing Southeast Asia in the new Global Group KATSEYE !!!! THANK YOU @sophia_laforteza FOR MAKING THE ENTIRE PHILIPPINES PROUD!!!&quot;<p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czx0Ue2uSBu/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3qFasuhdS3qFtZbxqWiFPSYuCbnScvtOJBaIp3K-xGAmotEId1XXiRzJE#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2441519.5999999978%2C%22ls%22%3A2439329.1999999993%2C%22le%22%3A2441424.5999999978%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Celebrity friends of Carla were quick to extend their congratulatory messages to her and to Sophia for this massive milestone.<p>&quot;Yahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Congratulations, Sophia!!!!!!!&quot; Lea Salonga commented.<p>&quot;Wow congratulations!!!🔥&quot; Rachelle Ann Go wrote.<p>Carla is a singer herself. She is a theater actress who appeared in widely acclaimed musicals like <em>Miss Saigon&nbsp;</em>in London and <em>Saturday Night Fever. <br/></em><p>In the final episode of <em>The Debut: Dream Academy</em>, Sophia outperformed nine other finalists, gaining a combined score of 88.33 from both viewer votes and judges&#39; evaluations.<p><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/11/19/filipino-talent-sophia-laforteza-to-debut-as-member-of-hype-geffen-s-new-global-girl-group-1007" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><u>READ: Filipino talent Sophia Laforteza to debut as member of HYPE, Geffen&rsquo;s new global girl group</u></strong></a><p>&quot;I can&rsquo;t even put it into words but I&rsquo;ve worked so hard to be here and I appreciate everybody who has voted for me and has supported me since day one. My family, my friends, my sonnies, I wouldn&rsquo;t be here if it wasn&rsquo;t for you guys,&quot; Sophia said in the final show as the results were unveiled.<p>She added: &quot;Thank you to everybody in this whole project for believing in me and for allowing me to grow. I&rsquo;m so grateful.&quot;<p>Other winning contestants who will debut as part of KATSEYE are Lara, Megan, and Daniela from the US; Yoonchae from South Korea; and Manon from Switzerland.

<p id="isPasted">Carla Guevara-Laforteza, the mother of Filipino talent Sophia Laforteza, took to social media to celebrate the victory of her daughter in the survival show <em>The Debut: Dream Academy.</em><p>On Saturday, November 18, it was announced that Sophia is set to debut as a member of HYBE and Geffen global girl group KATSEYE.<p>&quot;She DREAMED it, she PRAYED for it, she WORKED hard for it, she REACHED it! THATS MY GIRL!!!! 🌎&quot; Carla posted on her Instagram.

<p><b>Read Carla Guevara-Laforteza's message for her daughter Sophia, who will debut as a member of KATSEYE. </b></p>

Read Carla Guevara-Laforteza's message for her daughter Sophia, who will debut as a member of KATSEYE.

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