Janna Cachola

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Birth Name: Janna Cachola

Age: 34, born 29 October 1989

Country of origin: Philippines

Currently Residing In: New Zealand

Height: 5' 1"

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: Janna Cachola, (pronunciation:[ˈjɑnɑ]) born 29 October 1989, is an actress, singer based in New Zealand. She has been performing since 1996, but rose to fame in 2010, when she was cast in Miss Saigon in New Zealand. She is also known as Janna Cach or Janna C. Cachola was born in Manila, Philippines. Raised as a christian. Cachola is of mixed cultural background Italian, Filipino, Spanish. Attracted to performing at a young age, she was trained in vocals at the Ryan Cayabyab Music Studio and was a child model/actor before departing for New Zealand. She spent most of her life in South Auckland, New Zealand. Ca Janna Cachola, (pronunciation:[ˈjɑnɑ]) born 29 October 1989, is an actress, singer based in New Zealand. She has been performing since 1996, but rose to fame in 2010, when she was cast in Miss Saigon in New Zealand.

She is also known as Janna Cach or Janna C.

Cachola was born in Manila, Philippines. Raised as a christian. Cachola is of mixed cultural background Italian, Filipino, Spanish. Attracted to performing at a young age, she was trained in vocals at the Ryan Cayabyab Music Studio and was a child model/actor before departing for New Zealand. She spent most of her life in South Auckland, New Zealand.

Cachola started taking singing seriously at the age of 14 after a 'life changing' visit to the United States. As she returned to New Zealand, she joined her church's performing-arts team.

In 2006, she auditioned for New Zealand Idol (season 2) but failed to go through the first rounds. The same year, she performed at various bars in Philippines and recorded a demo literally entitled 'Self-titled'. After that she was part of several musical groups.

In 2008, Cachola was discovered by a Kiwi rapper Joshua Webb and chosen to be a backing vocalist for Parachute Music Festival 2008, one of the biggest Christian festivals in the southern hemisphere. Soon after, she appeared on two tracks - 'Society is a warzone' and 'Keep on' - for Webb's album. Later that year, another Kiwi rap artist Jzaman (Shaun Jervis) chose her to appear on his track 'Back against the wall' for his album 'Comfort Zone'.

Cachola has performed all over New Zealand and Philippines as a backing vocalist under the stagename 'Lyka', however was changed due to confusion with Filipino R&B artist Kyla.

In 2009, Cachola took a step back from music, to pursue her first passion, acting. She got herself an agent in Auckland that got her parts as a background actor in various tv shows/commercials/music videos filmed in New Zealand.

She moved to Dunedin in 2009 and was casted in local musical theatre. In 2010 she was in Miss Saigon musical in Dunedin, New Zealand. With Tina Braganza and internet sensation Kimpoy Feliciano.

In 2011, Cachola admitted that she was feeling depressed and was low in self-esteem, so she signed on to do confidence/modeling course with the local Dunedin modeling agency Ali McD. She trained in Modeling with New Zealand Next Top Model (cycle 2) 'twins' Nellie Jenkins & Elza Jenkins along with the agency owner herself, Aliana McDaniel. Despite her small stature, the 5'1 ½ was signed into the agency as a petite model. She was then discovered by a US based blogger, model and author Isobella Jade, who named Cachola 'Petite Model of the Week.'
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