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In Conversation With Liza Soberano About Taking Risks As An Artist

During Careless Music’s Trade Launch, she chatted with us about how her current mindset as an artist is aligned with the record label

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/9df2a096-5ae4-4b93-b658-9dc081462ebf_careless-music-artist-liza-soberano-article-banner.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Liza Soberano is now a Careless Music artist"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Liza Soberano is now a Careless Music artist<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><em> Photo from @lizasoberano / @mickeysee | Layout by Raff Colmenar  </em></span></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>Filipino-American artist <a href="https://metro.style/people/digital-covers/liza-soberano-10th-showbiz-anniversary-special/30815" target="_blank">Liza Soberano</a> debuted in showbiz in 2011. She has grown a lot since and absorbed tons of learnings on her way to becoming one of the brightest young actresses in the Philippines. She has starred in some of the top <em>teleseryes</em> and blockbuster films, and even took on <a href="https://metro.style/people/celebrities/liza-soberano-alexandra-trese-netflix/30448" target="_blank">a voice role in Netflix’s <em>Trese</em></a>. </p><div><br/></div><p>With a grateful heart for all the opportunities <strong>ABS-CBN</strong> had given her, Liza now gets ready to embark on the next chapter of her career. During <a href="https://metro.style/people/celebrities/scenes-from-careless-music-trade-launch-2022/33209" target="_blank">Careless Music’s recent Trade Launch</a>, she signed a contract with the record label chairman <strong>James Reid</strong> and CEO <strong>Jeffrey Oh</strong>, to make her deal with them official.  </p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/e4f072e9-7067-4ffa-99b8-400f957feea4_288838641_1049077999148163_2677214003186719561_n.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Careless Music chairman James Reid, artist Liza Soberano, and Careless Music CEO Jeffrey Oh"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Careless Music chairman James Reid, artist Liza Soberano, and Careless Music CEO Jeffrey Oh<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><em> Photo from @carelessph  </em></span></span></span></span></div><div><strong>Related Story: </strong><a href="/people/celebrities/scenes-from-careless-music-trade-launch-2022/33209" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scenes From Careless Music&#x27;s Trade Launch</a></div><div><br/></div><p>She looked as stunning as ever as she greeted the guests at Careless Music’s Trade Launch. But, she noticeably has a bolder and braver aura, too, especially in her custom JustBonita black dress with a corseted bodice and thigh-high slit and voluminous hair. </p><div><br/></div><p>Liza is first and foremost an actress, revealing that she even took acting lessons when she was in Los Angeles, California recently. But now that she’s with Careless Music, expect her to surprise and delight everyone with her creative facet as a singer, with the ultimate goal of crossing over to the global entertainment scene. </p><div><br/></div><p>Hinting at what they’re aiming to achieve with Liza, James said at the Trade Launch, “I would say Liza is easily one of the biggest stars in the country, and we’re really excited to partner with her. She’s a very talented actress. She has an amazing voice that she’s been hiding from everyone. That’s what we’re excited to bring out. You know, she has an eye for fashion. She has a deep understanding of pop culture, which is incredible. And she really is a force to be reckoned with. So we’re excited for everything we’re doing in the Philippines and overseas as well.”</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/4c70b1df-1be7-4d50-bc0f-bde5f0ce4641_288666379_417002183673270_7196246626514809556_n.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>Scroll through the gallery below to read more:</strong></div><div><br/></div><div class="article-content" itemProp="articleBody"><div class="media-content"><div class="slider-for"><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/a7409b91-b1d4-4bf4-934e-1822c6ab9989_liza soberano at careless trade launch gallery cover.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/54ec0db1-755e-4834-ae39-79c21abe6cef_288845769_1447623052327705_4355921623561896121_n.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/dc051b99-98e0-4984-b24d-1ab029c35aff_289036804_1471321046644566_4957551061540069806_n.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/1ea92833-8c55-41f6-88a4-c7e4b50ea766_289888733_560222538813065_3753010097113550770_n.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/690a0ca2-1ef8-456a-99bd-3b342dc02291_289245306_615376296241309_2404087585903507183_n.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/6e4e9998-baa4-40bf-aa49-ae5fcbcad266_289162285_745112916764762_4558467379647332934_n.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/fafb1837-d763-4436-8fa3-cdd75532edda_liza soberano at careless trade launch 2.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div><div><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/96bfbe0d-e98c-4ef6-8d2d-eadfc4ac70e1_batch_20220620_180224.jpg" alt="liza soberano is now a careless music artist" class="fr-fic fr-dii"/></div></div><div class="media-content slider-desc"><div class="item-desc"><div></div></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On what she likes about Careless Music - “With Careless, they do things differently… They make the artist kind of like the boss. So James [Reid] always says he works for me, not the other way around… That’s what’s kind of fun. I feel like the boss of my own career now. I feel more excited to take risks and do things the way I envision [them].”<cite>@lizasberano @mickeysee @renzpangilinan</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On exploring a music career - “With music, I’m just getting started because unlike other artists, I’ve never really taken music seriously. It was always something that I did just for fun and till now, it’s still something that I wanna do for fun. I’m still mainly an actress, but I do wanna explore getting into music as a way to express myself, my personal life, and my personal experiences in life.”<cite>@perrytabora</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On accepting acting projects - “I’m going back to the States to pursue an acting course. And then there are projects being offered here and there. But I’m still going through the scripts, and I just wanna make sure that the first thing that I do is the right thing for me. Because I feel like that’s kind of moving me in the direction that I wanna get to. So it has to feel right.” <cite>@lizasberano @mickeysee @renzpangilinan</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On how Careless Music’s vision is aligned with her current mindset as an artist - “So their vision is always to do things the way they want to do it. They always say it’s not about what we do but it’s always about the people that we do it with and how we do it. And so, that’s always something that I strongly could relate to. The glitz and glamour of showbiz was never the most important thing to me. It was always about how I felt doing it and how I felt working with people that I was working with.” <cite>@perrytabora</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On how Careless Music’s vision is aligned with her current mindset as an artist - “With Careless, they’re like a family. They help each other grow by giving each other projects that nobody thinks they can get initially. They’re able to take risks and they’re just so fearless. And that’s exactly what I want for myself because there came a point whereーI keep sayingーI’m starting to get comfortable with everything that I was doing. And I think comfortable is scary because then excitement goes away, nervousness goes away. And that’s always important for artists.”<cite>@perrytabora</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On being a risk taker - “No, I wasn’t a risk taker before. But I’m at this point in my life where I do wanna become a risk taker, and I wanna be able to make decisions on my own, whether it be the right decision or not. At least, I learn and I grow.” <cite>@gracelibero</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>On working with James Reid - “It is a lot of fun working with him because he relates to the same sentiments as me when it comes to creative expression. And that’s actually what drew me and what really excited me about working with him because I feel like nobody in the industry understands what artists go through [other] than, like, your co-artists. And so, he’s pretty chill. More than anything, he’s chill. He allows us to do whatever we want, like before this event, he was telling me to just say whatever I want. He’s cool.”<cite>@gracelibero</cite></p></div></div></div></div><div><br/></div><p>Lead and gallery photos from <strong>@lizasoberano @mickeysee @renzpangilinan @perrytabora</strong></p><p>Gallery cover photo by <strong>Grace Libero-Cruz</strong></p><p>Layout by <strong>Raff Colmenar</strong></p><div style="text-align:center"><br/></div><div class="youtube-iframe"><iframe width="400" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZKc9S14I6LU" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center"><br/></div><div class="youtube-iframe"><iframe width="400" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HY8wruPKVnw" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>Related Story: </strong><a href="/people/digital-covers/liza-soberano-10th-showbiz-anniversary-special/30815" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EXCLUSIVE: Liza Soberano Celebrates Her 10th Showbiz Anniversary With Metro</a></div>