Education
Tandingan is an alumna of University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City and had graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Biology.
Tandingan is an alumna of University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City and had graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Biology.
KZ Tandingan started singing as a child but had to stop when she was in her junior year in high school after suffering from a throat problem. Before she joined, Tandingan was part of a local acoustic band. Tandingan was considered as an early favorite after she performed a jazzy version of "Over the Rainbow" in the fourth week of the Judges" auditions.
After receiving a standing ovation from all the judges", she was requested to sing again.
She obliged and sang "Ready or Not" by the American rapper, Lauryn Hill. With her second song, she also showed her rapping skills.
Tandingan was greatly praised by all of the judges. Nievera even shouted that, "A star is born in Digos!".
The video of her audition went viral online after it was uploaded in YouTube.
The video reached nearly 1 million views before it was removed due to copyright issues. During the Bootcamp stage, she sang "Mahirap Magmahal ng Syota ng Iba" by the Army Post Office Hiking Society and cried after she made the cut for the Top 20. She sang "Killing Maine Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack during the Judges" home visit.
On week 9, she landed on the bottom 2 for the first time with teammate Allen Station
Maria, but she survived elimination. She was Charice"s last remaining act after Allen Station
Maria was eliminated on week 9. Performances and results
On January 7, 2013, Tandingan entered the Himig Handog P-People’s Love Songs contest with the song entry called "Scared To Death", written by Domingo Rosco Junior.
The song was accompanied with a music video that was assigned as a project to be directed by University of Santo Tomas and premiered on the 2nd of February in Myx Philippines.
She performed the song in the grand finals on February 24, 2013 at the Master of Science Mall of Asia Arena. On April 21, 2013, Tandingan toured across North America as a supporting act for popular band Side A.
On May 2, 2013, Tandingan released her self-titled debut album. The album was produced by Jonathan Manalo and consists of mainly original songs with some covers.
On June 27, 2013, Tandingan officially launched the album on Makati City.
On 2015, she was announced as one of the eight contestants for the second season of Your Face Sounds Familiar (Philippines season 2) along with Myrtle Sarrosa, Sam Concepcion, Cacai Bautista, Kean Cipriano, Denise Laurel, Michael Pangilinan and Eric Nicolas. The show began airing on September 12, 2015. and she was the 3rd runner-up.
KZ is currently in a relationship with TJ Monterde.
She reached the grand finals on October 7, 2012 and was proclaimed the winner of On January 11, 2014, Tandingan won P1,000,000 in The Singing Bee where she accumulated 4 straight songs correctly. In the show, she did not make a single error in the first 2 rounds and eventually won a tie-breaker against co-contestants Frenchie Dy and Sitti, who also did not commit any errors throughout the game.
