Sarah Wins Best Asian Artist Award

Sarah Geronimo - Best Asian Artist (Philippines)

The Mnet Asian Music Awards or more commonly known as MAMA is one of the major K-pop music award-giving bodies. Organized by Mnet Media based in South Korea for almost 13 years now, the 2012 MAMA held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center last November 30. Pop Princess Sarah Geronimo broke new grounds as she was the first Filipino to ever win the Best Asian Artist Award. The other nominees for the said award were Agnes Monica (Indonesia), My Tam (Vietnam), Taufik Batisah (Singapore), Li Yuchun (China), AKB48 (Japan), and Wang Leehom (Taiwan). Other big winners during the annual event were Big Bang for Artist of the Year, Super Junior for Album of the Year, and PSY's world wide hit Gangnam Style who won Song of the Year.

Congratulations Sarah! You definitely make us proud to be Filipinos!

Sarah's acceptance message via VTR here.