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**Sheena Mae Catacutan** (born May 9, 2004) better known as **Sheena**, is a Filipino rookie performer. She is the youngest member and main dancer of the Filipino girl group BINI.

She entered as a trainee in Star Hunt Academy on 2019.

## Background

Sheena's birth name is Sheena Mae Catacutan. She grew up with her single mother and her elder brother. Unfortunately, her mother passed away in 2020 during her trainee days. Her grandparents and her brother currently lives in Santiago City, Isabela where she was born and raised.

### Profile

* Sheena's favorite colors are Black & Purple.
* Sheena’s hobbies are dancing, singing, browsing social media and eating.
* Her special talent is ability to bend her thumb.
* Sheena’s favourite SHA subject is dancing.
* Her favorite Motto is: *”Never give up. Don't ever think of giving up.”*

## Life and Career

### 2004-2018: Early Life

Sheena has been dancing since she was seven years old. She started dancing and joined dance workshops when she was in kindergarten. In her whole grade school she has joined different competitions in pop dance, cheer dance and street dance in her school. In high school Sheena joined a dance group that competes in dance competitions inside and outside school. Joining a dance group help her to further develop her skills in dancing especially hip hop. Sheena also loves to sing, but she wasn't able to focus in improving her singing and prioritized dancing until she entered SHA.

In 2018, she auditioned in Star Hunt Auditions held in Isabela. At first she auditioned to be casted on ABS-CBN's reality program Pinoy Big Brother and she became an official housemate.

### 2019-2020: Star Hunt Academy Trainee

After her stint as a housemate in Pinoy Big Brother, Sheena was scouted to become a trainee in Star Hunt Academy on 2019. Under SHA, she further develop her skills in singing and her dancing skills under Filipino voice coaches Kitchy Molina and Anna Graham, and dance coaches Mickey Perz and Matthew Almodovar. She also undergone the intensive Korean training system with the help of *MU Doctor Academy* where she learned the Korean practice and discipline in singing and dancing.

Sheena joined her fellow trainees in performing on various ABS-CBN mall shows and other events around the country. She also appeared in a 2019 National Youth Commission event *FITFIL: Youth Against Drug*, where she was proclaimed as one of Youth Ambassadors. They were also invited to perform at the 2019 Manila Southeast Asian Games thanksgiving celebration.

She continued her training even during the *Extended Community Quarantine* due to COVID-19 pandemic. She was locked in along with her co-trainees inside *Camp Star Hunt* to ensure their safety against the virus.

On October 10, 2020, Sheena is one the last 8 members of Star Hunt Academy Girl Trainees to graduate from the Academy and announced to officially become an idol group.

### 2020-2021: Pre-debut as BINI and Official Debut

On November 2020, Sheena officially became a member of ABS-CBN Entertainment's girl group **BINI** and Pre-debuted with their single *"Da Coconut Nut"*.

On December 4, 2020, Sheena and her co-members in BINI signed an exclusive contract under ABS-CBN Entertainment and Star Magic Philippines, ABS-CBN's talent agency that will officially handle BINI.

In their pre-debut era, she and her fellow BINI members performed their pre-debut single *Da Coconut Nut* and other sing and dance covers in various ABS-CBN Entertainment shows like, *It's Showtime*, *ASAP Natin 'To*, and *Magandang Buhay*.

Their group officially debuted on June 11, 2021 with the release of their debut single Born To Win in a two-part event BINI: The Launch.

## Official Links

 Twitter Account

 Instagram Account

 Tiktok Account

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbA-jd91VJc *Youtube: The BINI Chronicles Part 2* Retrieved April 28, 2021
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No9ud0PNulw&t=508s *Youtube: SHA Journey EP.06* Retrieved April 28, 2021
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6LPNTi20M *Youtube: ABS-CBN Star Hunt* Retrieved April 28, 2021
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B057l-XDjvA/ *Instagram: Star Hunt Academy* Retrieved April 28, 2021
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-KA9vvApY *Youtube: Direk Lauren* Retrieved April 29, 2021.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://ent.abs-cbn.com/articles-news/star-hunt-academy-set-to-make-more-p-pop-idols-shine-worldwide-12780 *ABS-CBN Entertainment* Retrieved April 29, 2021
7. ↑ https://ent.abs-cbn.com/articles-news/star-hunt-academy-girl-trainees-graduate-set-to-blaze-p-pop-trail-13256 *ABS-CBN Entertainment* Retrieved April 29, 2021
8. ↑ https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2020/11/09/star-hunt-academy-launches-all-girl-pinoy-pop-group-bini/ *Tribune.Net.Ph* Retrieved April 29, 2021
9. ↑ https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/12/04/20/star-magic-shines-on-what-happened-who-signed-whos-new *ABS-CBN News* April 24, 2021
10. ↑ https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/11/24/20/polish-and-potential-p-pop-group-bini-wows-with-1st-live-performance-goes-viral *ABS-CBN News* Retrieved April 24, 2021
11. ↑ https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/05/11/21/get-ready-bloom-bini-is-finally-set-for-debut *ABS-CBN News* Retrieved July 11, 2021