Complex sentence: She took voice lessons at the music conservatory of the University of Santo Tomas, and later joined a beauty pageant known as Miss Manila where she placed second but was named the Muse of Manila after contesting the results.
Split into simpler sentences: She took voice lessons at the music conservatory of the University of Santo Tomas. Imelda later joined a beauty pageant known as Miss Manila where she placed second but was named the Muse of Manila after contesting the results.