audiences with her performance on "ellen." ♪ >> center for pop music philippines. aiming to bring out the star in anyone who dreams. >> reporter: kids here start really young. how old were you when you started to sing? >> 3. >> reporter: they learn how to work those vocal cords and work the stage. ♪ >> reporter: by the time they're tweens they're certified belters. ♪ >> reporter: a team of experts coach them on the hottest dance moves. ♪ >> reporter: and evaluate their performances. >> you look good. you sound good. but the thing is, i don't feel the excitement. >> reporter: i decided to take my lesson with a beginner's teach, coach karen. >> one of our lessons is how to move your hands. yes. so the hand gesture, for example, if you're singing you, the word "you." >> you. >> you communicate by -- ♪ crazy for you ♪ >> i like that one. >> reporter: but it is a lot of fun. ♪ touch me once and you'll know it's true ♪ >> you have a very good voice quality and i think you could be madonna someday. >> thank you, good-bye abc. >> reporter: does any other nation like to sing quite as

true? >> oh, you know i have blackberry issues, and it started with your executive producer ellen rakieten, who became-- oprah: who's now your executive producer. >> that's right. she's mine now, but she has changed her blackberriness. the blackberry people-- oprah: no, she came--i noticed when she came and sat down, she had her blackberry. >> i know, but she's not this. oprah: what? >> this is what i can't do. the people that talk to you with one i eye going to the blackberry. oprah: yes. >> or the head--the creepy head down thing. oprah: this happened once when ellen was at your house. >> right. we discussed blackberry etiquette, which society needs and does not have. oprah: there needs to be--we need a whole show on it. >> yes. oprah: yes, and what would be the number one and number two rules? >> um, when someone is talking, you cannot look at your blackberry. oprah: period. >> period. right? [applause] oprah: yes. >> it's kind of like you go into a hardware store to get something, and you ask the guy, and then the phone rings, and he goes, "hang on a second." well, wait a minu

: i'm really excited that ellen's going to be on. >> i am, too. yeah, she's great. oprah: yeah. i think ellen's going to be a great addition. >> she's going to be great. i mean, i know people are going to miss paula. paula's amazing. she is a--she has such a good heart. [applause] she really does. oprah: she was always the kind one. yes. >> yeah. yeah, and that--you know, what she brought to the judging panel was just as important as what simon brings. because it's positive ht. ent. oprah: right. >> even if at home-- oprah: yeah, because you can't have everybody being the same. that's what was so great about it. >> yeah. and at home, the audience might, you know--"what's simon going to say?" you know, because as a--as a society, we get obsessed with the negative. but i think as a contestant on the show, hearing that positive is really important-- oprah: yeah. >> to your own growth and your own self-worth as a performer. oprah: well, it's wonderful to see you. >> you, too. oprah: thank you, adam. adam's cd, "for your entertainment." go to oprah.com for one more special performance from a

according to "people" magazine. we said, wait a minute, you missed ellen degeneres? that is big news this morning. ellen degeneres said no thank you. she said one season is basically enough for her. my work schedule just became more than i bargained for. now, fox is not commenting on the replacements or cara or degeneres. she said, i got to place in my career where i love nurturing young talent. she said it was hard for her to judge people. >> she didn't want to hurt people's feelings by saying, you know what, you're not that good. she made a sensitive decision. >> this continues to evolve. maybe a fifth judge or fourth judge. stay tuned. >>> remember the show "roseanne" a few years ago? the daughter who played darlene on the show, sarah gilbert, she was at the television critics association meeting a while ago and came out of the closet and said, hey, you know what i'm a lesbian, i'm gay. she's actually the executive producer and going to be co-hosting a show with several other ladies, almost like a new kind of "view" format. she came very open. she's been raising two kids with her