'Miss Suklay Diva' Katrina Velarde, Newest Viral Sensation

Singer Katrina Velarde has been given the name "Miss Suklay Diva" after a video of her using a hair comb ("suklay" in Tagalog) as microphone while singing a Beyonce song went viral online.

Miss Suklay Diva Katrina Velarde

Many netizens were impressed on how effortlessly Velarde belted out Queen Bee's "Dangerously In Love" in the clip.

First posted on Youtube months ago, Velarde's video has been shared in a number of Facebook pages, including a Brazilian Beyonce fan page with over 450,000 likes.

As of this posting, Miss Suklay Diva's video on the said Beyonce page has been liked more than 22,000 times, has over 11,000 shares and has attracted thousands of comments, mostly in Portuguese.

A singing contest veteran, Velarde competed against international singing sensation Charice and singer-actor Sam Concepcion in "Little Big Star" on ABS-CBN when she was younger. Later on, she and her fellow "Little Big Star" contestants Alyssa Kate Quijano and Jennifer Maravilla formed a singing trio called New Born Divas and joined the second season of TV 5's "Talentadong Pinoy," where they were able to make it to the grand finals.

Velarde, 18, is now member of the singing group A.K.A. Jam that placed 10th in "The X Factor Philippines."