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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.
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.
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 ...
During the ten years of driving jeeps, he would compete in amateur nights held at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo only to lose, reportedly due to his strong Visayan accent. [ 3 ] In 1965, Villame returned to Bohol to become a bus driver, where he formed a rondalla band with some fellow drivers; he sang and played the mandolin .
Visayans (Visayan: mga Bisaya; local [bisaˈjaʔ]) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous distinct ethnic groups, many unrelated to each other.
Many songs in the different Philippine languages, however, share the same tune, such as the Tagalog Magtanim ay 'Di Biro, Kapampangan Deting Tanaman Pale and the Gaddang So Payao. Another example is the Visayan song Ako Ining Kailu, which has the same melody as the Ibanag Melogo y Aya and Kapampangan Ing Manai. Filipina girls playing Philippine ...
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 ...