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The Filipino composer and musicians and their
contributions

Ryan Cayabyab
Ryan Cayabyab
Born:May 4, 1954
Birthplace:Manila
Race:Asian
Field:Composer
Warmly known as Mr. C, born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab on May 4, 1954 inManila,
Philippines. Ryan's mother was an opera singer; she died when he was only 6, while hisfather
fight to sustain him and his three siblings. His mother's wish was that no one of her children
would make music as a line of work; knowing how tough life is for a musician withinsufficient
income.Ryan Cayabyab firstly took up Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in the
Universityof the Philippines, Diliman. But at the same moment, he searched for an employment
to sustainhis studies, and sooner join with then-Senator Salvador Laurel as accompanist for
theDevelopment Bank of the Philippines (DBP) Chorale Ensemble. Noting his incomparable
abilityon the piano, the Senator presented him a scholarship that would allow Ryan to alter his
courseand hold learning in music.Cayabyab afterward graduated from the UP College of Music
earning a Bachelor of Music,Major in Composition degree. Following that, he became a
complete professor for theDepartment of Composition and Music Theory in the UP Diliman for
about two decades.At the twist of the century, he was about to take his family and transfer
abroad, but when presented by Danding Cojuangco, President of the San Miguel Corporation, a
authority post thatwould give him full way in producing and performing new music that would
carry out a newwave to the Philippine music scene, he acknowledged the proposal.Ryan
Cayabyab is a prominent Filipino musician and the existing Executive and Artistic Director of
the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. His works vary from specially made fulllength ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a crowd set to unaccompanied chorus,
andorchestral pieces, to salable recordings of popular composition, film scores and
televisionspecials. Now, he is presently in his 7th year as Executive and Artistic Director of the
San MiguelFoundation for the Performing Arts

Levi Celerio
Levi Celerio (April 30, 1910 April 2, 2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist.
Celerio was a prolific songwriter, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps
best known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness
Book of World Records. In 1997, he was named National Artist of the Philippines for
Music.

Early life and career

Levi Celerio was born on April 30, 1910, in Tondo, Manila to parents that hailed from Baliuag,
Bulacan. He received a scholarship to the Academy of Music in Manila and became the youngest
member of the Manila Symphony Orchestra. He wrote several number of songs for local movies,
which earned for him the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Film Academy of the Philippines.
Celerio has written lyrics for more than 4,000 Filipino folk, Christmas, and love songs, including
many that became movie titles.
Known for being a good lyricist, his songs cherish life, convey nationalistic sentiments and utter
grand philosophies. Celerio wrote more than 4,000 songs, among them are popular pieces, which
many consider to be immortal. At one time or another, no Filipino could miss the tune or lyrics
of Levi's Christmas songs: Pasko na Naman, Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon (Ang
Pasko ay Sumapit), and Misa de Gallo.
His more popular love songs include: Saan Ka Man Naroroon?, Kahit Konting Pagtingin,
Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal, Kapag Puso'y Sinugatan, and Ikaw, O Maliwanag na Buwan, Dahil
Sa Isang Bulaklak, Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, Bagong Pagsilang, and Sapagkat Kami'y Tao Lamang,
while his folk songs include Ang Pipit, Tinikling, Tunay na Tunay, Itik-Itik, Waray-Waray, Pitong
Gatang, Ako ay May Singsing, Alibangbang, Alembong, Galawgaw, Caprichosa, Ang Tapis ni
Inday, Dungawin Mo Hirang, Umaga na Neneng, Ikaw Kasi, and Basta't Mahal Kita. Celerio
also wrote nationalistic songs such as Ang Bagong Lipunan, Lupang Pangarap, and Tinig ng
Bayan.
Celerio, for a time, was also recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the only man
who could play music with a leaf. Because of his talent, Celerio was invited to The Merv Griffin
Show, where he played "All the Things You Are" with 39 musicians. Using his leaf, Levi wowed
the crowd and got the attention of the Guinness Book of World Records. The Book later listed
the entry: "The only leaf player in the world is in the Philippines". He would also later appear on
That's Incredible!

Proclaimed as National Artist

On October 9, 1997, pursuant to Proclamation No. 1114, President Fidel V. Ramos proclaimed
him a National Artist for Music and Literature. His citation read that his music "was a perfect
embodiment of the heartfelt sentiments and valued traditions of the Filipino.

Nicanor Abelardo
(Father of filipino sonata)Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo (February 7,
1893 March 21, 1934) was a Filipino composer known for his
Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War.

Life
Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan. His mother
belonged to a family of artists in Guagua, the Hensons. He was introduced to
music when he was five years old, when his father taught him the solfeggio and the banduria. At
the age of 8, he was able to compose his estoryahe first work, a waltz entitled "Ang Unang
Buko," which was dedicated to his grandmother. At the age of 13, he was already playing at
saloons and cabarets in Manila. At age 15, he was already teaching in barrio schools in San
Ildefonso and San Miguel Bulacan. All of these happened even before young Abelardo finally
took up courses under Guy F. Harrison and Robert Schofield at the UP Conservatory of Music in
1916. By 1924, following a teachers certificate in science and composition received in 1921, he
was appointed head of the composition department at the Conservatory. Years later, he ran a
boarding school for young musicians, and among his students were National Artist Antonino
Buenaventura, Alfredo Lozano and Lucino Sacramento. In the field of composition he is known
for his redefinition of the kundiman, bringing the genre to art-song status. Among his works were
"Nasaan Ka Irog," "Magbalik Ka Hirang," and "Himutok." He died in 1934 at the age of 41,
leaving a collection of more than 140 works.[1]
As a composition major at the University of the Philippines, he also composed the melody for
the university's official anthem, U.P. Naming Mahal.

Discography

1937 - Nasaan ka, Irog (music)

1937 - Bituing Marikit (Sampaguita) (music)

2013 - The Songs of Nicanor Abelardo featuring baritone Joseph Legaspi, tenor William
Lim, soprano Katrina Saporsantos, and pianist Benjamin Dia.

Freddie Aguilar
Ferdinand Pascual Aguilar (born February 5, 1953), better known as
Freddie Aguilar or Ka Freddie Aguilar, is a folk musician from the
Philippines. He is best known for his rendition of "Bayan Ko", which
became the anthem for the opposition to the Marcos regime during the
1986 People Power Revolutionand for his song "Anak", the best-selling
Philippine music record of all time He is heavily associated with Pinoy rock
He is well known internationally, and within the Philippines and Asia-Pacific region, claiming
fame as one of the best musician-songwriters of the Philippines

Life and career

Freddie Aguilar studied Electrical Engineering at De Guzman Institute of Technology but did not
finish the degree program. Instead he pursued music, became a street musician, and then a folk
club and bar musician

Political activism
Five years after the composition of "Anak", Freddie Aguilar joined protests against the Marcos
regime and began writing and performing songs that criticized the excesses of the
governmenSome of the songs that caused him to be banned from mainstream media include:
"Kata-rungan" or "Justice" (speaking for the unjustly accused), "Pangako" ("Promise") (a
leader's unfulfilled pledges to an abandoned people), and "Luzvi-minda" (an acronym for Luzon,
Visayas, Mindanao, calling on Filipinos to wake up to the reality of oppression). One of the
songs he was most remembered for during that time was his interpretation of "Bayan Ko" ("My
Country"), in which he added a verse to the original piece

Bayan Ko" (My Country)

In 1978, Aguilar first recorded "Bayan Ko" in a patriotic effort to, in his words, jolt back those
who were starting to forget who we really are.The song was originally composed in 1928 by
Constancio de Guzman, with lyrics by poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, during a time of struggle for
Philippine independence from US occupation

International acclaim

Freddie Aguilar's "Anak" not only broke the Philippine record charts in 1979, but it also hit the
no. 1 spot in Japan and achieved considerable popularity in other countries such as Indonesia,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, and parts of Western Europe.

Popular songs
In chronological order [date or year of release]:

"Anak"

"Alaala"

"Pulubi"

"Bulag, Pipi At Bingi"

"Ang Buhay Nga Naman Ng Tao"

"Pinoy"

"Bayan Ko"

"Magdalena"

"Mindanao"

"Katarungan"

"Luzviminda"

"Pangako"

"'Di Ka Nag-iisa"

"Mga Bata Sa Negros"

"Estudyante Blues"

"Ipaglalaban Ko"

"Kumusta Ka"

"Pasko Ang Damdamin"

APO Hiking Society

The Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society, later popularly known as APO Hiking Society, or
simply Apo, was a Filipino musical group,often referred to as "The Beatles of the Philippines."
The group had its fledgling beginnings in 1969 at the Ateneo de Manila high school, with
thirteen membersLito de Joya, Sonny Santiago, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito Kintanar,
Kenny Barton, Bruce Brown, Butch Dans, Kinjo Sawada, Ric Segreto, Goff Macaraeg, Doden
Besa, Jim Paredes, and Boboy Garovillo. The group's name was created from the acronym
AMHS representing their school with a witty twist having an irreverent reference to the
paralyzed Philippine revolutionary intellectual and hero, Apolinario Mabini, and later shortened
to "Apo", an Ilocano term for a wise man or a Tagalog term of grandchildren, and later rebranded to "APO" (all caps). Contrary to popular belief, the "Apo" name was not a reference to
the Philippines's highest peak, the potentially-active stratovolcano Mount Apo.
As the students advanced into college, Danny Javier joined the group. After graduation, the
majority of its members left to pursue individual careers, with only three members
remaining,made up of Jim Paredes, Boboy Garovillo and Danny Javier
In the span of their professional career, Apo emerged as a principal adherent of the musical
movement termed Original Pilipino Music (a.k.a. OPM), a milieu in which their original musical
contributions and cultural influence became essentialThe Apo became involved in record
production, talent management and organizing artists under the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong
Mang-aawit (O.P.M., acronym translation: "Organization of Philippine Singers/musicians"). The group
expanded its activities into establishing and furthering the careers of new OPM artists in the
Philippines.
To date, the group has released 27 albums in four decades of its career.Two hugely successful
tribute albums were produced in 2006 and 2007 by its management group, featuring numerous
young bands freshly reinterpreting Apo's expansive repertoire.
The group frequently utilized their brand name, "Apo," as a clever component for Tagalog puns
in titles for television shows, live programs and marketing materials (for example, as in nA PO,
which transliterates as "already" (polite/formal usage), and also as ap (meaning, "grandchild").
The puns have been minimally extended into English, as in (APOcalyptic).

Songs

"American Junk" (covered by Kamikazee feat. Parokya Ni Edgar)

"Anna" (covered by Top Suzara)

"Awit ng Barkada" (covered by Itchyworms)

"Bakit ang Babae" (covered by Sandwich)

"Banal Na Aso, Santong Kabayo" (original by Yano)

"Batang-Bata Ka Pa" (covered by Sugarfree)

"Bawat Bata" (covered by The Dawn, also used by Sugarfree as a jingle ad for
AlactaGrow)

"Blue Jeans" (covered by Wise Guys, then Eraserheads, and then by Rocksteddy)

"Di na Natuto" (original by Gary Valenciano, originally composed by Danny Javier &
covered by APO, then Sound, and then by Noel Cabangon)

"Doo Bi Doo" (covered by Kamikazee, now covered by Ogie Alcasid was used in a
soundtrack I Doo Bidoo Bidoo)

"Ewan" (covered by Imago)

"Hanggang May Pag-Ibig" (covered by Chilitees)

Jose Mari Chan

Jose Mari Chan (born March 11, 1945) is a Chinese Filipino singer, songwriter and
businessman in the sugar industry. He was born in Iloilo City on March 11, 1945. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila
University in 1967 He is married to Mary Ann Ansaldo[2] and has five children. He is
currently the chairman and CEO of BISCOM, Inc. and A. Chan Sugar Corporation. He
is also the chairman and president of Signature Music Inc.

Musical career
He first appeared on the local scene as the host and singer of a television show called "9 Teeners"
of ABS-CBN in 1966. His first single Afterglow was released in 1967 His first long playing
album Deep in My Heart was issued in 1969. In 1973, he represented the Philippines in the
World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo where his song Can We Just Stop and
Talk A While went into the final entries.
In 1975, he moved to the United States for his sugar business and remained
there for 11 years. In 1986, he went back to the music industry with the
release of his album A Golden Change.
In 1989, he released his album Constant Change.It was named Album of the
Year by the Awit Awards, the local equivalent of the American Grammy
Awards and reached the Diamond Record in terms of sales. It also sold in
other Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

In 1990 his Christmas album, Christmas in Our Hearts was released t reached triple platinum
status that same year, eventually earning the Double Diamond Record Award. His 2001 album A
Heart's Journey won Album of the year in the Awit Awards.
In 2005, he composed We're All Just One as the theme song of the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
In 2011, he released his 13th full length album, The Manhattan Connection: The Songs of Jose
Mari Chan. The album, which was produced by Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer. The
songs were reimagined by music producer Yaron Gershovsky.
In 2012, he released his 2nd Christmas album and his 14th over-all album Going Home To
Christmas, his 2nd Christmas album after 22 years since Christmas In Our Hearts was released
in 1990, his 1st Christmas album became one of the best selling albums in the Philippines until
today.

Singles

Beautiful Girl - the official music video shows Chan in a dinner jacket with some ladies
appearing on-screen.

Can We Just Stop and Talk A while

Christmas In Our Hearts - Chan's most popular holiday song. Featuring his daughter, Liza
Chan.

A Perfect Christmas - one of his other popular holiday songs

Please Be Careful with My Heart - featuring Regine Velasquez

Can't We Start Over Again

Constant Change

Is She Thinking About Me?

If We Only Had More Time Together

Easier Said Than Done

Love At Thirty Thousand Feet - commercial jingle for Philippine Airlines. Still used as an
instrumental by the airway company.

My Girl, My Woman, My Friend - featuring Janet Basco

Perhaps Love - featuring Liza Chan

So I'll Go

Here and Now

We're All Just One - official anthem of the 2005 SEA

Games

Afraid for Love to Fade

Yoyoy Villame
Roman Tesorio Villame (November 18, 1932 May
18, 2007), better known as Yoyoy Villame, was a Filipino singer, composer, lyricist
and comedian. Villame was a native of Calape, Bohol and was the father of singer
Hannah Villame. He died of cardiac arrest at the Las Pias Medical Center in Manila
on May 18, 2007.

Early life
Villame was the youngest among ten children of a fisherman father and fishseller mother. He
started composing songs for the Boy Scouts in his elementary days. Dropping out after his
second year in high school, Villame enlisted to become a soldier-trainee of the Philippine Army.
Being unhappy in his post in Pampanga, he asked for a discharge after the surrender of rebel
leader Luis Taruc. Villame would become a passenger jeepney driver plying the Baclaran-Pasay
Taft-Santa Cruz-Dimasalang route. During the ten years of driving jeeps, he would compete in
amateur nights held at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo but only to lose because of his strong Visayan
accent

In 1965, Villame went back to Bohol to become a bus driver of the MB (Meneses-Butalid) Liner
fleet, where he had a bus numbered 13 that plied the Tagbilaran-Ubay-Talibon route. At the bus
company, Villame formed with some fellow drivers the MBs Combo, a rondalla band where he
sang and played the mandolin. Villame was soon invited to parties and eventually as an
entertainer at fiestas, baptisms, weddings, funerals and special events.
The owner of the bus company took notice of Villames efforts and set up a music studio named
Kinampay Records, after a local dish, just for him. Villame's first recording was in 1972 and
entitled "Magellan", a parody of historicism of Ferdinand Magellan's failed conquest of the
Philippines. This became the top-selling record in the Visayas-Mindanao region. Comedian
Chiquito recognized his potential and brought Villame to Manila to be signed to Vicor Records,

which re-issued most of the Kinampay catalogue. Touring Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and other
parts of Luzon helped Villame establish his name in the country.
Villame was the first to brand his music as "novelty" to distinguish himself from his
contemporaries, who tried hard to sound like Perry Como or Frank Sinatra. It was the beginning
of a long list of albums and recordings of his politically inspired songs in Cebuano, Tagalog and
English

Notable works
Villame blended Filipino folk melodies, popular tunes and nursery rhymes for his music and then
added witty lyrics that mixed Tagalog, Cebuano and English in a form of grammar that he
concocted. He became a national figure in 1977 with his near anthemic "Mag-exercise Tayo",
which has been adopted by government agencies and public schools as the official music for
their Monday morning exercise after the flag ceremony.
His most popular song was "Butse Kik", a song written from made-up Chinese-sounding words
which Villame allegedly came up with by writing down the names of Chinese stores while
waiting for a mechanic to fix his broken-down jeepney in Manila's Chinatown; it borrowed from
the tune of Dee Dee Sharp's "Baby Cakes", a 1962 hit. The song would then be covered by a host
of artists, Aiza Seguerra and The Company to name a few. The Chinese community in Cebu felt
slighted by the song but dropped plans to bring Villame to court because not a single Chinese
word was included in the song.The song, moreover was actually released by Yoyoy Villame
earlier in his career originally under the title Vietcong Palagdas with the Embees and the MB
Rondalla Band through Kinampay records.
Villame wrote "Philippine Geography", which lists 77 major islands, provinces, cities,
municipalities, and towns in the Philippines from north to south. He also established a love team
with "Barok Labs Dabiana" and celebrated his fisherman father with "Piyesta ng Mga Isda".
Hilarity was the common theme, as seen from his songs about cavemen ("Tarzan at Barok") or
geography ("My Country, My Philippines"). His song "Take It, Take It (Pasko ng Fiasco)" took
potshots at the Manila Film Festival scam in the 1990s.
He made more than 25 albums and won several sales awards, among them a double platinum for
his album Tirana My Dear and a platinum for McArthur and Dagohoy in 1991. He also won Best
Novelty Award for "Piyesta ng mga Isda" at the 1993 Awit Awards. His long list of hits and his
entertaining style of music earned him the title of 'King of Philippine Novelty Songs'.
Villame began making movies in the early 1970s with the help of Chiquito. His first on-screen
appearance was in Isla Limasawa, where "Magellan" was used as theme song. In 2004, He
played a Visayan troubadour in the critically acclaimed movie, Babae sa Breakwater ("Woman of
the Breakwater"). In doing over 50 movies, Villame is most noted for his role in the 1974
suspense thriller Biktima. His song "My Country, My Philippines" was played in the opening
scene of the movie Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, while his songs also landed in the
soundtrack for the movie Pepot Artista

He moved to Las Pias City, where he became a city

councilor for ten years. He then ran for vice-mayor in
1995 but lost.

Julio Nakpil
Born: 22 May 1867
Birthplace:Quiapo, Manila
Died:2 November 1960
Race:Asian
Field:Composer
Julio Nakpil was born as one of twelve children from a well-off family in the Quiapo
district of Manila. His parents withdrew him from
Escuela de Instruccion Primaria
after two years and hadhim take over the family stable, making sure that their
coachmen and stable boys were doingtheir work smoothly.
Julio educated himself at home and eventually learned how to play the piano, as
was proper for traditional families during that time. His passion for music was
largelyself-taught. Although he took violin lessons from Ramon Valdes and piano
lessons from ManuelMata, he spent more time practicing alone with these
instruments, giving him the ability tointerpret the music of classic legends like
Johann Strauss, Emile Waldteufel, Philipp Fahrbach,and
Josef Kaulich, among others.
In his desire to continue learning, he read Spanish books, novels, history books, the
writings of
Jose Rizal, and music discourse. His skill in playing the piano earned him an
audience among theaffluent, becoming a regular pianist Malacaang social
functions. On April 27, 1888 hecomposed his first short polka piece for the piano
called "Cefiro," which was followed with other pieces such as "Ilang-Ilang,"
"Recuerdos de Capiz," "Pahimakas," "Pasig Pantayanin," and"Biyak-na-Bato," to
name a few. Nakpil later became a piano teacher and composed regularly.Many of
his compositions during this time were directly inspired by the Revolution.
Hiscomposition "Marangal na Dalit ng Katagalugan" was a candidate to become the
Philippine National Anthem, and was personally preferred by Bonifacio, but was
ultimately rejected byGeneral Emilio Aguinaldo in favor of
Julian Felipe's "Lupang Hinirang". He later revised his piece and entitled it "Salve
Patria". After Aguinaldo allegedly ordered Bonifacio's execution, Nakpil claimed to
have received threats on his own life, as did General Antonio Luna, whoended up
being betrayed and executed by Aguinaldo's men.
Among his expository works were "Luz Poetica de la Aurora," "Recuerdos de Capiz"
and"Exposicion Regional Filipina," all of which were given a diploma of honor from

the ExposicionRegional Filipina in 1895. He was also awarded a

diploma and bronze medal from theExposition of Hanoi in 1902, a
diploma and silver medal from the St. Louis InternationalExposition
in the U.S. in 1904, and a medal and citation from the Civic
Assembly of Women in1954.
In 1963 he was given a posthumous award by the Bonifacio
Centennial Commission inrecognition of his patriotism. In 1964, a
memoir entitled
Julio Nakpil and the Philippine Revolution was published by his heirs.

Julin Felipe
(January 28, 1861 October 2, 1944), was the composer of the music of the
Filipino national anthem, formerly known as "Marcha Nacional Magdalo", now known
as Lupang Hinirang. He was born in Cavite City, Cavite. A dedicated music teacher
and composer, he was appointed by then-President Emilio Aguinaldo as Director of
the National Band of the First Philippine Republic. He died in Manila. In recognition
of his remarkable contributions in the field of music, he was given awards and
accolades.
When the revolution broke out, Julian joined his fellow Cavitenos who fought against
the Spaniards. He was arrested and jailed at Fort San Felipe in Cavite.
When freed, he again joined Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo's troop. He composed
nationalistic songs that inspired his compatriots to continue fighting against the
Spaniards. A bust of Felipe can be found in Cavite City, located near San Sebastian
College Recoletos de Cavite.
Gen. Aguinaldo asked him to provide a stirring composition to be played in the
historic proclamation of Philippine independence. His composition 'Marcha Nacional
Filipina', played on June 12, 1898 in Aguinaldo's home in Kawit, was adopted as the
Philippine national anthem on September 5, 1938.
Julian and his wife Irene Tapia had four daughters and a son. Julian died on October
2, 1944, at age of 83.