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Elmo Moses Arroyo Magalona (born 27 April 1994) is a Filipino actor and singer. He is currently an artist of ABS-CBN and Star Magic. He is the child of Francis Magalona and Pia Magalona.
Magalona’s first appearance on the Pinoy hiphop/rock scene was when he was six months old being featured on the cover of FreeMan. He reappeared on his father’s album five years later on FreeMan 2. Magalona appeared in a noodle commercial called “Lucky Me Supreme” along with his father. He appeared as a young drummer in Kjwan’s music video, “One Look”. He also studied in Ateneo De Manila University
In 2010, Magalona joined the cast of the GMA’s television pilot Bantatay as a series regular. He also appeared in the fantasy series Kaya ng Powers in a recurring role.
In 2011, the young actor-rapper, together with fellow artist Sam Concepcion, performed as the front act in Miley Cyrus’ concert in SM Mall of Asia concert grounds. In the same year, he was launched as a movie star in Tween Hearts: Class of 2012.
Magalona appeared on GMA Network’s variety show Party Pilipinas as a regular performer and host. Aside from being known as the “Heir of Rap,” he is also known as the other half of the popular musical tandem, “JuliElmo” side by side with his partner, Julie Anne San Jose, an experiment-gone-successful of the Sunday noon show. They have collaborated in several YouTube videos, currently having more than a million views. He was included in the cast of Tweets For My Sweet in 2012. He also starred as the lead in the show Together Forever, as Ely Trinidad opposite his love team partner, Julie Anne San Jose. In May 2013, Magalona, in collaboration with Oishi, released a remake of a famous song by his dad, and renamed it “Kaleidoscope World Forever More”. The remake featured his duet with the late master rapper. A music video was also created, with certain modifications and inserting Elmo digitally to the original Music Video.
In 2014, he was chosen as one of the interpreters of the Philpop entry, “Qrush On You”, alongside Jay-R and Q-York. He was recently seen in the Sunday variety show, Sunday All Stars as a host and performer. He was also the lead star in the CinemalayaX entry, #Y and was one of the lead stars in the recently concluded Villa Quintana together with his onscreen love team and Real Life Girlfriend Janine Gutierrez. The tandem is reunited again in a primetime soap, “More Than Words”. His last GMA show was Magpakailanman in 2015.
On November 26, 2015, Magalona left GMA Network and signed a working contract with ABS-CBN. His first project will be a musical-drama series, “Born for You” with his new on screen partner Janella Salvador and called by their fans as ‘ElNella’.
