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Smokey Mountain, in 2011. Housing built around Smokey Mountain, seen in 2011. Smokey Mountain was a large landfill once located in Tondo, Manila. [1] History
Smokey Mountain was a Filipino singing group formed by musical director, composer, and National Artist for Music, Ryan Cayabyab, [1] [2] and executive producer Judd Berlin. The group was based in Manila, Philippines , and had James Coronel, Geneva Cruz , Jeffrey Hidalgo, and Tony Lambino as its original members.
Originally established in the 1970s, [1] the former open dumpsite was home to scavengers who migrated to the area after the closure of the Smokey Mountain landfill in Tondo, Manila. [2] After the Payatas landslide happened in 2000, [3] the newly passed Ecological Solid Waste Management Act mandated the closure of open and controlled dumpsites ...
Smokey Mountain in 2011. Mid-rise social housing apartments were built to rehouse slum residents after the closure of the landfill in 1995 that once occupied the area. Tondo is the largest of the 16 districts of the City of Manila in terms of population and land area. It is also the second most densely populated district in the city.
Tondo hosts the Manila North Harbor Port, the northern half of the Port of Manila, the primary seaport serving Metro Manila and surrounding areas. [12] The area also hosted Smokey Mountain, a landfill which served Metro Manila and employed thousands of people from around the 1960s until its closure in the late 1990s. The dumpsite served as a ...
Holly Kays is the lead writer for the 29,000-member Smokies Life, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the scientific, historical, and interpretive activities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...
She was discovered and mentored by National Artist of the Philippines for Music, Ryan Cayabyab who formed the defunct iconic music group Smokey Mountain, which she was a member of. In 2020, Cruz moved back to Manila in the Philippines, from the United States, where she worked as a weight-loss coach for a few years.
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