Musics
Cards (4)
- HONORATA “ATANG” DELA RAMA
- THE QUEEN OF KUNDIMAN, BEGAN HER ACTING CAREER AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. AT THE AGE OF 7, SHE STARRED IN MANY SPANISH ZARZUELAS
- AT THE AGE OF 15, SHE STARRED IN THE SARSWELA “DALAGANG BUKID”, WHICH WAS LATER ADAPTED INTO FILM THAT FEATURED HER AS A FEMALE LEAD AS WELL.
- DATE OF AWARD: 1987
- POPULAR WORKS: DALAGANG BUKID, PAKIUSAP, AY, AY KALISUD, KUNG IIBIG KA AND MADALING ARAW , MUTYA NG PASIG
- LUCRESIA KASILAG
- MAINLY AN EDUCATOR, COMPOSER, HAD INVOLVED HERSELF WHOLLY IN SHARPENING THE FILIPINO AUDIENCE’S APPRECIATION OF MUSIC.
- KASILAG’S PIONEERING TASK TO DISCOVER THE FILIPINO ROOTS THROUGH ETHNIC MUSIC AND FUSING IT WITH WESTERN INFLUENCES HAS LED MANY FILIPINO COMPOSERS TO EXPERIMENT WITH SUCH AN APPROACH.
- DATE OF AWARD: 1989
- POPULAR WORKS: HER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC INCLUDES LOVE SONGS, LEGEND OF THE SARIMANOK, ANG PAMANA, PHILIPPINE SCENES, HER SON, JOSE, SISA
- LEVI CELERIO
- ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILIPPINE MUSIC, HAVING AUTHORED MORE THAN 4000 SONGS.
- HIS NATURAL TALENT EARNED HIM A SCHOLARSHIP AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN MANILA, WHICH MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO BE PART OF THE MANILA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE YOUNGEST MEMBER AT THE TIME
- HE MADE IT TO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS AS THE ONLY PERSON ABLE TO MAKE MUSIC USING JUST A LEAF.
- DATE OF AWARD: 1997
- POPULAR WORKS: O MALIWANAG NA BUWAN” (ILOKO), “AKO AY MAY SINGSING” (PAMPANGO), “ALIBANGBANG” (VISAYA), “ANG PASKO AY SUMAPIT” AMONG OTHERS.
- RYAN CAYABYAB
- MR. C IS THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED COMPOSER, ARRANGER, AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR IN THE PHILIPPINE MUSIC INDUSTRY SINCE THIS BLOOMED BEGINNING 1970S.
- HIS COMPOSITIONS REFLECT A PERSPECTIVE OF MUSIC THAT EXTOLS THE EXUBERANCE OF LIFE AND HUMAN HAPPINESS, THUS CAPTURING THE VERY ESSENCE OF OUR FILIPINO SOUL.
- DATE OF AWARD: 2018
- POPULAR WORKS: RAMA-HARI (TWO-ACT MUSICAL BALLET, 1980);
NOLI ME TANGERE (TELE-SINE MUSICAL, 1995); KAY GANDA NG ATING MUSIKA; TUWING UMUULAN AT KAPILING KA