Madonna Decena-A mother who wants to get her children

By now, thousands have seen the performance of Madonna Decena in the Britain's Got Talen where she qualified in the semi-final. WHO IS SHE?



The 32-year-old mother of two tried her luck in Singapore where she performed at Hard Rock Café and Club Momo.

When she returned to the PHilippines, a high school friend encouraged her to try her luck in the United Kingdom.

With a student visa, she moved to Prescot in the UK in 2006. “Being a student, I was allowed only 20 hours of part-time work [weekly],” she recalled.


Since gigs as a singer were all too rare, she worked in a Subway sandwich store.

“I took the late or closing shifts,” she recounted. “I had to clean and serve at the same time. It was hard work. Sometimes I had to drag my feet to get home.”

She also worked at a Choco Fruit outlet where she often stayed for “10 hours straight.”

Dad Rey said Mado didn’t mind the back-breaking grind. “She’s used to that. When she was studying in Miriam (College), she worked as marketing trainee at McDonald’s SM City and acted in stage musicals with Musical Theater Philippines and Trumpets.

She was able to secure a work permit at UK shen she was hired as a singerin a girl band.