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Pilar Garrido Corrales (born August 22, 1939) [1] is a Filipino pop singer, songwriter, actress, comedian and television presenter. She is best-known for her distinctive backbend [2] when singing and is popularly referred to as the "Asia's Queen of Songs" for her vocal style and longevity.
Pilita Corrales released numerous Cebuano songs in the 20th century, including "Matud Nila". Max Surban is known as the "the King of Visayan Song". Modern Cebuano music first took shape in the 20th century. Its production began to flourish in the early 1900s, owing to the rise of zarzuelas (Spanish-style musical plays) written in Cebuano.
Manuel Kabajar Cabase a.k.a. Mahnee Cabase or Manny Cabase (January 1, 1921 in San Nicolas, Cebu City–December 23, 2003 in San Francisco, California) is a Filipino composer, instrumentalist, and musical director for Visayan movies.
He has been given the "King of Visayan Song". Although known primarily for his singing of novelty songs, he has also recorded romantic ballads. Like his fellow Visayan, the Bol-anon singer Yoyoy Villame, Max Surban has also become famous for his singing of so-called novelty songs. On several occasions, both Yoyoy Villame and Max Surban have ...
Kumintang (love song; also a pantomimic "dance song" – Dr. F. Santiago) Cundiman (love song; used especially in serenading ) The Spanish scholar V.M. Avella described the kundiman in his 1874 work Manual de la Conversación Familiar Español-Tagalog as the " canción indígena " (native song) of the Tagalogs and characterized its melody as ...
Since the song was passed from generations to generations, the lyrics was wrongly interpreted as Baleleng. [1] The song is about a man bidding goodbye to a lady called Leleng as he is going to war. Like other Sama Dilaut songs, it is sung with the accompaniment of a string instrument like gitgit and biula, gabbang and the kulintangan. [8] [9]
The winning songs from the competition made it to several radio station's hit song countdowns. 1st Visayan Pop Music Festival grand prize winner Duyog was part of the MOR 97.1 Cebu's Epic Top 20 Countdown for 23 weeks, while third runner-up Balay ni Mayang was No. 3 MOR 91.9 CDO BIGA10 Hits Daily, No. 6 Bay Radio 104.7 FM Batangas' 20 Hit Combo ...
Jose Mari Lim Chan (Tagalog: [hoˈse mɐˈɾi ˈtʃan]; born March 11, 1945), born José Mari Chan y Lim, is a Filipino singer, songwriter, businessman and TV presenter. . Regarded as one of the country’s most renowned balladeers and composers, [3] he is popularly dubbed as the "King of Philippine Christmas