Julie Anne San Jose

Julie Anne Peñaflorida San Jose is a Filipina singer and actress who is a contract artist of GMA Network.San Jose’s first appearance on Philippine National Television was when she joined “Little Miss Philippines”, a popular segment of the longest running afternoon show, Eat Bulaga, when she was three years old. She became one of the finalists of the said competition and won as first runner up.

She officially started her career in the year 2005 when she competed in Popstar Kids, a national televised singing competition for children aged 7 to 11 hosted by Kyla. Having placed among the top five competitors of the said competition, she was offered a place in the show's spin-off band dubbed Sugarpop, with whom she recorded the albums Sugarpop and Sugarpop (Repackaged), and a hosting stint in Planet Q, QTV's children-oriented animal show. She made her acting debut in the telenovela Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan? and has also appeared in the Sunday noontime musical variety shows SOP and then Party Pilipinas, all with GMA Network.

In addition to recording studio albums, San Jose has also recorded the theme songs for several GMA Network shows, namely Dyesebel, The Last Prince, Pilyang Kerubin, Sisid, Dwarfina, and Broken Vow. She was chosen along with Elmo Magalona to sing the GMA 7’s summer station ID. She also recorded two tracks on the album so-called Tween Academy: Class of 2012 under GMA Records.  She also has been releasing cover songs on her soundcloud account. As of now, GMA Records is planning to launch her first solo album.

Aside from singing, she can also play the drums, piano, guitar, flute, lyre, keyboard and xylophone.She is also famous for the JuliElmo love team opposite Elmo Magalona, they can be seen performing together in Party Pilipinas. Julie Anne, with Elmo Magalona as her musical tandem, had a short film produced by Party Pilipinas, "RedMask" (trilogy) which overwhelmed the viewers with their talent and on-screen chemistry. From then on, the number of their following tripled up as the show continue to showcase their talent in their every production number together. San Jose and Magalona had a rap musical in Party Pilipinas entitled "Elmo and Julie Anne: A Wazak Love Story" which was based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet”.

She have done two shows under GMA Network namely Andres de Saya (2011), where she played as Lizzy, sister of Matt played by Iza Calzado and the love interest of Bryan, played by Elmo Magalona, and Daldalita (2011), where she played as Marga De Leon, sister of Katrina (Manilyn Reynes) and Carmela's (Donna Cruz) younger sister and Gino's (Elmo Magalona) love interest. She also appeared on three Maynila episodes, where she played as Tracy, Jade and Kim. She had her first appearance on the big screen when she played as herself, as guess performer, in the movie Tween Academy: Class of 2012. In addition to movie grounds, GMA Films has been announcing a movie with a working title of “Just One Summer”, where Julie will be playing the lead role together with Elmo Magalona.

She also had her first solo concert entitled Spread the Love Live (2011) and at present, she will be having a concert in Cebu entitled From the Heart Concert. She also had a show in Dubai with Maja Salvador, Derek Ramsey, Alex Castro and Melai Cantiveros entitled Proud to be Filipino.

She’s also been doing Ustream show every month with different themes per month.

San Jose has also featured on several magazines namely Pinoy Magazine (March-April and October 2011 issues), Candy (November 2011 issue), Metro (November 2011 issue), Total Girl (December 2011 issue), and Starstudio (February 2012 issue).

She has also been recognized and awarded by several award giving bodies on the country and on Asia. These are Guillermo Mendoza Foundation Awards, where she won as Most Promising Love Team of 2010 (with Elmo Magalona), 24TH Aliw Awards, where she won as the Best Teen Performer (2011). She was also included in the Top Ten Women to Watch in the Year 2012 placed on the number 2 spot and was known as the Asia’s Pop Sweetheart. She is also nominated as an Outstanding Breakthrough Performance by an Actress (Andres de Saya) in 2011 Golden Screen TV Awards and nominated as #youtubestar in Shorty Awards.