UPDATED AS OF AUGUST 12, 2023
Debut Single: The Light
Debut Date: January 29, 2021
Label: Star Magic, ABS-CBN
Members:
• Gelo
• Akira
• JL
• Mikki
• Nate
Fandom Name: Aces
Official Colors: Red & Gold
Official Accounts:
Facebook: Bgyo_ph
Instagram: bgyo_ph
YouTube: BGYOofficial
Twitter: bgyo_ph
TikTok: bgyo_ph
BGYO an acronym short for Becoming the change, Going further, You and I, Originally Filipino; five-member boy group that was called SHA Boys previously as they were formed by ABS-CBN Star Hunt Academy and debuted in 2021 under ABS-CBN’s Star Magic. The group which compose of Akira, Gelo, JL, Mikki, and Nate, considers their Filipino heritage as an asset and aims to reflect in their music. Known as the “Aces of P-pop,” was the first Filipino pop group to acquire its own Twitter topic.
Following the release of their debut single The Light in 2021, BGYO released their first original soundtrack, He’s Into Her, which garnered them their first major award at the 2021 Asian Academy Creative Awards for “Best Theme Song or Title Theme.” They also became the fifth Filipino artist to appear on the weekly Billboard Next Big Sound chart, where they debuted at number two before immediately moving up to number one for two weeks with the release of their sophomore single, The Baddest. By 2022, the group had been featured on the cover of Xpedition as “The Raging Storm,” making BGYO to be one of the first Filipino celebrities—along with their sister group BINI—to be the cover of a NFT magazine cover and the first Middle Eastern artists to have their work published through the Metaverse. The group made history after the release of their second album Be Us when they became the first Filipino artist to simultaneously have two albums and 32 tracks on the iTunes Philippines Charts.
GELO
Birth Name: Angelo Troy Rivera
Position: Leader, Lead Rapper, Lead Dancer, Center
Birthdate: April 18, 2001
Hometown: Pasay City, Metro Manila
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Facebook: angelotroy.rivera
Instagram: ofcbgyo_gelo
Twitter: bgyo_gelo
Tiktok: ofcbgyo_gelo
Favorite Color: Black, green, and teal
Favorite Food: Sinigang, and adobo
Favorite Sport: Volleyball
Hobbies/Interests: dancing, theatre, listening to music, and eating food
Former member of the dance crew called A-Team.
To visit the British Museum and Big Ben is one of his dreams
AKIRA
Birth Name: Akira Morishita
Position: Lead Vocalist, Main Visual
Birthdate: April 27, 2001
Hometown:
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Facebook: akira0427
Instagram: ofcbgyo_akira
Twitter: bgyo_akira
Tiktok: ofcbgyo_akira
Favorite Colors: black, green and white
Hobbies/Interests: drawing, playing basketball, table tennis, biking, badminton, beatboxing
He is Japanese-Filipino
He wish to visit to Stonehenge and Eden Project.
He would like to own a snake as a pet one day.
He was an Indie Filipino Actor and was a part of Sundalong Kanin (2014), Alienasyon (2014), All of Me (2015) and ‘Tol (2019). He was also part of couple TV commercials.
JL
Birth Name: John Lloyd Toreliza
Position: Main Vocalist
Birthdate: September 17, 2001
Hometown: Naic, Cavite
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Facebook: jolo.toreliza.9
Instagram: ofcbgyo_jl
Twitter: bgyo_jl
Tiktok: ofcbgyo_jl
Favorite Color: black
Hobbies/Interests: singing, playing basketball, volleyball and table tennis
Special Talent: impersonating animal sounds
Considered as the funniest member alongside Gelo and Akira.
He is the loudest and noisiest among SHA trainers and was voted as ”President of the Republic of Microphone”
MIKKI
Birth Name: Michael Claver Jr.
Position: Main Rapper
Birthdate: February 13, 2002
Hometown:
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Facebook: ofcbgyo.mikki
Instagram: ofcbgyo_mikki
Twitter: bgyo_mikki
Tiktok: mikkiclaver
Favorite Color: black
Hobbies/Interests: reading manga and watching anime, collecting black oversized shirts
He wrote the bridge part on their debut single “The Light”
He is a sleepyhead
His mom is half-Chinese. He studied in a Chinese school for 14 years
NATE
Birth Name: Nathaniel Porcalla
Position: Main Dancer, Sub-Rapper, Youngest
Birthdate: June 26, 2003
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Facebook: nateporcalla
Instagram: ofcbgyo_nate
Twitter: bgyo_nate
Tiktok: ofcbgyo_nate
Favorite Colors: black, beige
Hobbies/Interests: dancing, playing video games especially COD and PUBG.
Special Talent: flexibility and cartwheel
He is a fan of Stray Kids, WayV, NCT, GOT7, Seventeen, Wanna One, Jungkook, and G-Dragon. They are his inspiration alongside a famous choreographer Franklin Yu.
He can finish a whole box of pizza although he is allergic to all kinds of nuts, seafood and chocolate
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