REMEMBERING HIS ROOTS

The first time Jhett Tolentino heard of the Tony Awards was in his Social Studies class in high school where they were asked who the first Filipino winner was. The answer is Lea Salonga, for Miss Saigon in 1991. Never did he think that he will eventually follow her footsteps, 22 years later. “I only knew and felt that there was something bigger outside of Iloilo (his hometown). I knew I would not be settling there.