and other musicians in his church, who helped him master the instrument. Nievera joined a band at eighteen, during which he started to realize that "I want to do this. I really thought music was the one thing that I wanted to be better at." Nievera began writing the songs for his debut album in 2008. He contributed one of these songs, "Smile", to Regine Velasquez's 2010 album, Fantasy. While studying music production at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and serving as the vocalist and guitarist of an indie rock band called Wagyu, Nievera won Myx VJ Search 2010 by the music channel Myx. He said he joined the competition because "I love talking. I love to talk besides making music [because] I like making people laugh. I like doing things with the camera." He stated that as a VJ, "I'm gonna give whatever I can give, which is my randomness and my dad's wit and my mom's quick mouth whatever that means." Nievera said of the start of his career, "Before I was just busy. I was just wasting time. Now, I'm busy, with a purpose." 20122015: Overwait, Nightmares, and The Next Attraction Nievera signed with PolyEast Records and launched Overwait on March14, 2012. Discussing the album, he said: "The concept... was to make original music and to sound different but not to sound like too foreign." A Philippine Daily Inquirer writer commented, "Robin Nievera is one fine blues guitar player. The evidence is on all ten tracks on this debut album, whose title, Overwait, is rich with self-deprecating wit." Nievera composed the entire album. He titled it as such because he said "I have been planning this album since I was fifteen." He initially presented only seven of his songs to PolyEast, which agreed to produce the six; the company soon decided to add four more. The album lead single is "In 3's", which was followed by "Smile". The music video for "In 3's" premiered on Myx in April 2012 and hit the Pinoy Myx Countdown for weeks, while "Smile" made into Magic 89.9's Top 30 charts. Nievera performed songs from Overwait as he opened for the American pop rock band Hanson on its Shout It Out World Tour in Manila on March30, 2012. During this period, he was also producing his parents' duet album titled No More Words. It became available in May 2012 and also