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Julio Nakpil y García (22 May 1867 – 2 November 1960) was a Filipino musician, composer and a General during the Philippine Revolution against Spain.He was a member of the Katipunan, a secret society turned revolutionary government which was formed to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines.
María Clara de los Santos is a fictional character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere (1887). The beautiful María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of the protagonist, Crisóstomo Ibarra, who returns to his Filipino hometown of San Diego to marry her.
"Anak" became a finalist in the first MetroPop Song Festival.It went on to become very popular in the Philippines and eventually abroad. The song generated a hundred cover versions, was released in 56 countries and in 27 different foreign languages, and is claimed to have sold 30 million copies.
Although Rizal's native tongue was Tagalog, his early education was all in Spanish. In the oft-quoted anecdote of the moth and the flame from Rizal's memoir, the children's book he and his mother were reading was entitled El Amigo de los Niños, and it was in Spanish. [11] He would later lament his difficulties in expressing himself in Tagalog.
Florante at Laura is written as an awit, meaning "song", but it also refers to a standard poetic format with the following characteristics: [6] four lines per stanza; [7] quatrain [6] twelve syllables per line; [7] an assonantal rhyme scheme of AAAA (as described by José Rizal in Tagalische Verskunst); [citation needed]
Bandang Lapis (stylized as Bandang LAPIS) is a pop band from Rizal, Philippines, known for their viral all-Tagalog compositions online.. The band is originally composed of Lesther Abaño (lead vocals), Mark Jay Nievas (lead guitar, backing vocals), Lenrey Beltran (rhythm guitar), Ryan Paul Marangga (bass guitar), Jomari Luna (keyboards), Leandro Repuno (drums, percussion, backing vocals), and ...
He was born as Edgard Villavicencio Peregrina on November 11, 1944 to Octavio Peregrina of Pililla, Rizal and Nena Villavicencio of Cebu. Eddie started singing in amateur contests as a young child. He won the singing contest of DZXL's "Tita Betty's Children Show" at the age of six. After he graduated at Villamor High School in 1963, he became a ...
Leonor Rivera-Kipping (née Rivera y Bauzon; 11 April 1867 – 28 August 1893) [1] was the childhood sweetheart, and “lover by correspondence” [2] of Philippine national hero José Rizal. Rivera was the “greatest influence” in preventing Rizal from falling in love with other women while Rizal was traveling outside the Philippines . [ 3 ]