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He was a pioneer and leading exponent of Pinoy folk rock [1] during the DZRJ-AM radio boom in Manila during the 1970s. His more popular singles include the hit ballad ...
Ako ay Pilipino is a Filipino patriotic song written by George Canseco in 1981, commissioned by First Lady Imelda Marcos for the inauguration of her husband, 10th President Ferdinand Marcos, [1] and performed by Kuh Ledesma.
Pinoy (/ p ɪ ˈ n ɔɪ / or / p iː ˈ n ɔɪ / [1] Tagalog:) is a common informal self-reference used by Filipinos to refer to citizens of the Philippines and their culture as well as to overseas Filipinos in the Filipino diaspora. [2] [page needed] [3] A Pinoy who has any non-Filipino foreign ancestry is often informally called Tisoy.
Pinoy [7] — A Filipino person. Popularized by the song Ako'y Isang Pinoy . Plantilla [ 53 ] [ 35 ] — Faculty assignment; [ 53 ] a permanent or regular position in the public sector.
Manila sound is styled as catchy and melodic, with smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco.However, broadly speaking, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk etc.), and should therefore be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a ...
"Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa" was adopted on June 9, 1978 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1413, [4] a key element in Marcos's vision of building his "New Society".When the new motto was finally unveiled three days later on Independence Day during the 1978 State of the Nation Address, Marcos claimed that it was imperative for the nation to build a united though diverse political community.
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
A loanword is said to have undergone a semantic shift if its meaning in Tagalog deviates from the original meaning of the word in the source language (in this case, Spanish). A type of semantic shift is the so-called semantic narrowing , which is a linguistic phenomenon in which the meaning of a Spanish-derived word acquires a less general or ...