Carina Afable

{{Short description|Filipina actress and singer}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Carina Afable | birth_name = Carina Agoncillo | occupation = Actress Singer | years_active = 1960s-1970s | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Ryan Silos||end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Leonard Bell|||end=died}} * Samuel H. Gray }} | children = Richie Silos Robert Silos Cherry Silos Ronnie Silos Christopher Bell | relatives = Ryan Agoncillo (nephew) }}

'''Carina Afable''' (born '''Carina Agoncillo''') is a retired Filipina actress and singer.

==Biography== Afable began her professional career as a member of the Philippines' singing Agoncillo family. At age 7, her aunt, Dori Villena, began taking her to Filipino radio and television stations, and Afable started appearing in soap operas and doing commercials, including one for Carnation milk.<ref name="inquirer">{{cite news |last=San Diego Jr. |first=Bayani Jr. |date=March 1, 2012 |title=Before Charice, there was Carina Afable |url=http://entertainment.inquirer.net/32073/before-charice-there-was-carina-afable |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920003048/http://entertainment.inquirer.net/32073/before-charice-there-was-carina-afable |archivedate=September 20, 2012 |accessdate=September 19, 2012 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer}}</ref>

In 1960, she joined the cast of the radio program ''Botika sa Baryo'', and went on to the daytime television variety show ''Stop, Look & Listen'', which ran from 1968 to 1972 on ABS-CBN. In her teens, she starred in such musical-variety shows as ''Chelsea Dance Time'', ''Spotlight on Carina'' (which aired on Channel 3), ''Carina'' (Channel 11) and ''May I Sing to You'' (Channel 5) and went on to appear in movies, beginning with Vera Perez Pictures' version of ''Tawag ng Tanghalan'' (1958),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pecho |first=Ernie |date=August 1, 2004 |title=Mga produkto ng singing contest |url=https://www.philstar.com/pilipino-star-ngayon/showbiz/2004/08/01/259660/mga-produkto-ng-singing-contest |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref> and going on to ''I’m a Tiger'' and 1967's ''I’ll See You in September''. She starred in the children's television show ''Kiddie Land'' (Channel 5).<ref name=inquirer/> She appeared in such films as ''Agents Wen Manong'' (1968), ''Patria Adorada (Dugo ng Bayani)'', and ''Intensity '70'' (1970), her last Filipino movie.<ref name=inquirer/>

In the 1970s, Afable, who recorded albums on the Villar label, sang in the girl group Hi-Pertensions with Norma Ledesma and Linda Magno.<ref name=inquirer/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Villar |first=Ferdie |date=2015-02-05 |title=Filipina singing group Hi-Pertensions headlines fundraising concert on Feb. 21 — |url=https://asianjournal.com/entertainment/showbiz/filipina-singing-group-hi-pertensions-headlines-fundraising-concert-on-feb-21/ |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=Asian Journal News |language=en-US}}</ref> As a singer, she would often dub over Susan Roces's voice when she sang in films.<ref>{{Cite web |last=E |first=Baby |date=July 1, 2018 |title=Susan napahinga na sa ghost singer |url=https://www.philstar.com/pang-masa/pang-movies/2018/07/01/1829497/susan-napahinga-na-sa-ghost-singer |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref>

When martial law was declared in 1972, shutting down television production and curtailing live musical performances, Afable's career waned. Prior to this, she had toured North America, Germany and France as a solo act, and subsequently, in the late 1970s, she emigrated to the United States. There she appeared in three episodes of the American police sitcom ''Barney Miller'' as Deputy Inspector Frank Luger (James Gregory)'s mail-order bride. She went on to do TV commercials, including for the Reggie Jackson barbecue grill and Wienerschnitzel hotdogs, for which she sang the commercial jingle.<ref name=inquirer/> As of 2012, Afable works for Anthem-Blue Cross.<ref name=inquirer/> Although she is retired, she occasionally performs for the Filipino community in the US.<ref>{{Cite web |title=» FILIPINA SINGER CARINA AFABLE "ROCKS" ANCOP-NJ WALK LAUNCH |url=http://news.ancopusa.org/?p=127 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919045602/http://news.ancopusa.org/?p=127 |archive-date=2012-09-19 |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=news.ancopusa.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Asis |first=Eugene E. |date=2023-04-30 |title=4th AmerAsia International Awards night tagumpay |url=https://journalnews.com.ph/4th-amerasia-international-awards-night-tagumpay/ |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=Journal News Online |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2015, she reunited with Hi-Pertensions for a fundraising concert.<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life== Afable married Filipino television director Raul Silos, and had the first of her several children at age 16. Before their divorce, the couple had four children, Richie, Robert, Cherry and Ronnie Silos. Afable married Leonard Bell, an American, in the 1970s, with whom she had another son, Christopher. She and Bell were married for seven years, until his death. Sometime later, she married Samuel H. Gray, also an American.<ref name=inquirer/> One of her nephews is singer-actor Ryan Agoncillo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lo |first=Ricky |author-link=Ricky Lo |date=April 15, 2001 |title=Talking Ryan with Ryan - CONVERSATIONS with Ricky Lo |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2001/04/15/94303/talking-ryan-ryan-conversations-ricky-lo |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations== 1970 nomination, Supporting Actress, Famas Awards.<ref name=inquirer/>

==References==

==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=1036270|name=Carina Afable}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Afable, Carina}} Category:1940s births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Filipino actresses Category:20th-century Filipino women singers Category:Filipino film actresses Category:Filipino television actresses Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Year of birth missing (living people)