In 1989, while still in high school, Cooky Chua formed the band Color It Red together with Barbi Cristi and Maricar Florendo. They performed at Club Dredd. In 1994, they released their first album titled Hand Painted Sky.[3] They received an Awit Award in 1995 for Best Performance by a New Group.[4] They also won the Katha Awards in 2002 for Best Vocal Performance in the Rock category.[4] Some of their well-known songs include "Paglisan" and "Na Naman."[5] In 1997, Cooky Chua and Wency Cornejo performed a duet on the song "Walang Hanggang," and they won the Awit Award for Best Performance in a Duet.[6]
Aside from singing with the band Color It Red, Cooky Chua also performs in hotels. She also sings jazz pieces and songs from the 1940s and 1950s.[7] Cooky Chua portrayed Lidy, the wife of an activist, in the musical production Lean, a Filipino Musical in 1997.[3]
In 1998, Cooky Chua was awarded the Golden Voice of Asia Award in Hanoi, Vietnam.[3] In 2012, Cooky Chua, Lolita Carbon, and Bayang Barrios formally formed the band Tres Marias.[8][4]
Cooky Chua was among the performers in a show titled Awit Para Kay Coritha at My Brother's Mustache Folkbar in Quezon City on August 5, 2024. The event aimed to raise funds to help Coritha, who had suffered a stroke.[9]
Cooky Chua also joined Wency Cornejo of AfterImage, Naldy Padilla of Orient Pearl, and Lei Bautista of Prettier Than Pink in a concert of original Filipino music on January 25, 2025, at the Music Museum.[10]
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